In our days social media has a huge impact on our lives whether we want it or not. The evolution of mankind is using as it’s main tool the technology.
Therefore, we can say that social media is the way to evolution and innovation. But are those evolutions and innovations right or wrong? Is it bad or is it good thing to let social media having so much power and influence in our private life? How can we say what if it’s useful to be spied online by locations apps such as Google Maps or CityMapper? Is it not useless to post so much on social media, knowing that the articles we post are transformed into date to get tracked? Who control those devices? How is the data collected be used in favor or against us?
To present the advantages and the disadvantages of using localization data apps, social media chats on privacy, I referred to people coming from all over the world, all ages and social background such as rural and urban environment tracked by a single entity: police authorities. A lot of people are using social media networks, even criminals. Police started tracking those criminal by inventing smart stratagems. Hunting villains down using social media networks appeared to be conclusive and brought good results. As mentioned by the website www.digitaltrends.com:
“Just as the Internet makes it easier to catch criminals, it also makes it easier for citizens to report police abuse.”
Even though, a lot of people are saying that they will not use these networks just for the reason that they want to be monitored by official authorities and state, mentalities are slowly accepting the share of data with governments. For example in the United States of America, 62% of Americans by the Pew Research Center said they had no problem cooperating with the government into sharing information about criminal records of individual citizens online.
As a conclusion I want to say that we can use social media with care without excess. We must now where to post and not to post to avoid the negative impacts and live a drama-free life.
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Oversharing especially on Facebook is a big problem these days. so that’s why i am starting to unfollow people or pages. i keep in my list just my interests. it’s called selection and i advice people who are stressed about oversharing phenomenon to use it.
I like your point of view. you will remain in my interests circle
good job
I have the same problem like not posting anything on the Facebook that my mum will start to asking me a hundred of questions that how’s my day, because she think if I didn’t post something, it means I am having a good time right now. But the truth is, I just being lazy and don’t bother to posting things online.
Very nice article which takes a very recent trend as an example to show how important it is not to forget about manners by not sharing so many private details and invading others space (even and especially on social media platforms) and common sense by letting the police doing their job by hunting criminals.