Many people around the world today are all about Social Network Sites, also known as SNS. These SNSs are there for various reasons. To keep in touch with friends, find old friends, to do business and even to make new friends. There are dangers on social networking sites which people tend to underestimate. Personal Information is something that when given out easily, comes back to haunt us.
Social networking sites tend to mislead people into believing that they have become social beings. The more “friends” you have on your list, the higher your popularity. Staring at your computer, chatting with fiends and random people as well as playing online poker does not make one a social person. People become so tech-reliant that they forget what it is like to communicate with people face to face.
Online social interaction may give the ‘quite’ people a chance to communicate more and express themselves more freely. These people have a different personality when they are online and when they are offline. These two personalities clash when faced with reality. This is normally a problem when two people meet on an SNS and decide to meet up. It ends up such that their portrayed personalities online do not match their descriptions.
Be careful of what you are sharing on these sites. It is easy to give out enough personal information for random people to find you, your family and friends through it. Personal information like home address, phone numbers and full name. This information can be cross checked with the network’s list and traced to your place and address.
A good number of people do not realize that the information they post can be seen by everyone unless they have restricted profiles. Random people from around the world or even from your neighborhood can find information and use it to track and hack your accounts. Even releasing information about your child; school is dangerous as a predator out there, is now aware as to where to get your child.
Posting up of pictures is another thing to look out for. Pictures are put up to share with friends and family. However, are those pictures alluring or provocative to catch the eye of a dangerous person? Despite knowing it might not be safe, some even put indecent or racy pictures of themselves to attract attention. What if those pictures catch the wrong attention and put you in a dangerous spot.
When you are looking for job, the first thing you do is send your resume to the company. The first that the company does upon receiving your resume, is check up on you via the internet. What they get when they first type your name is the link to the social network site that you have joined. From there, they check out all your personal information and pictures. If, they do not like what they see, they chuck your resume and go on to the next person.
A positivity that a social network site allows is the promoting and conducting of any particular business. Any user might like what they see and proceed on to purchase it. After making payment for the object or even service, it might be defective. However, it might not be the case all the time.
SNS can be very addictive. We join it to be in touch with friends from the past and the present. They also join it to know what is going on in the clique that they want to join. We also want daily updates of the people on our list, so we checkout their profiles even though it is not something that effects us in any way.
Not only that, we tend to play the games on it as everyone is playing them too. We get ‘invitations’ from our friends and we join them for the sake of it. We start off with Farmville and we proceed with quizzes that pop up every other time we are online. We start off with playing the games once a month, which goes on to once a week, to once a day and ends up with us playing it every hour. There starts our social network site game life.
As the world becomes more tech savvy, as does our reliance on it. The first thing we do when we get our mobile phones is to download our social network site application. Then we proceed on to doing something more with it. Once we have access to it on the go, we update it regularly with minute by minute progress. As you sit beside someone in the bus or train, the first thing you will notice the person doing is checking out the activities that are occurring on the SNS.
Social networking sites can have both negative or positive impacts on a person. It all comes down to how the person is using the tools that are provided in using these sites.
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