Privacy issues of Social Networking Sites

With the popularity of social networking sites such as FacebookTM, TwitterTM, MySpaceTM, etc, the Internet users are satisfied with disseminating personal information while ignoring the threat of privacy violation. According to statistics provided by FacebookTM (2013), as of June 2013, the number of active users per day is about 699 million, about one tenth of the world's population is actively using FacebookTM I will. However, the rapid spread of social networks is widely believed to cause various privacy problems.

Anyone worried about the privacy of social networking sites should ask the next question. Does the next generation suffer from cyber security? According to a UK study, 25% of teens are trying to attack or hack their partner's Facebook account. Most 1,150 children under the age of 19 who asked anonymously said they tried to crack their friends' passwords for fun. Approximately 21% said they would like to cause confusion (Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was told at Harvard University). However, the success of hackers is more difficult to manage than I imagined, and 82% said they have failed.

This article describes the impact of social networking sites on the nature and limitations of privacy. There are various social networking sites with various privacy settings such as Facebook, MySpace, Youtube, Twitter, Google Buzz and billions of people have participated in these social networking sites in recent years. Social networking sites provide an easy way to share your information with users. However, many users will soon find the information they want.

It is the key to this problem to clearly understand social networking sites and online privacy issues. In recent years, social networking sites (SNS) have attracted millions of people because they can communicate with these sites in various ways. Like Beye et al. (Nd) SNS allows people to create networks that represent their social relationships, easily share media content online, provide communication channels, and share aspects of everyday life with friends I will. However, the personal information of the SNS is exposed to a wider audience and there is a potential threat to the user's privacy as the information about the user is usually published by others without his / her consent. Therefore, social media complicates the boundaries of personal information disclosure.