Social Networks for some are portals to others, friends, family; a form of communication. Some like to talk with old acquaintances, others like to show of how outrageous they are, depending on who you are you may have a different opinion of a program like Facebook .
The big attraction of sites like Facebook is how easy it is to access information and stay connected to others. When does it become dangerous? When do we begin to show too much of ourselves? Potential employers sometimes access profiles to find out what type of person they may employ. Some people don’t even realize that they are being looked at to find if they would be a valuable asset to companies. Some companies might not want to hire someone who conveys a bad image of themselves through pictures, videos or other media.
This is a hard topic to deal with, because first off the internet is a public space. So technically anyone is allowed to access content from it, so if people are putting up pictures of drugs, orgies and such, they really have no one to blame but themselves. To not hire someone based on the fact that they may have attended a couple of parties through University is absurd.
For most people Social Networks are a way to showcase themselves to their friends, to let them see what type of personality they have. It’s hard to say just why people feel the need to showcase themselves in different ways online. These networks do allow people to be part of something, allowing themselves to showcase themselves to a larger group of people. Social Networks are kind of like high school, everyone wants to be part of the cool online fads, and abandon the ones that are aging and dying out I guess?
The problem is that people believe the internet is so vast that no one cares about their information. Which is an unrealistic idea, ton of people are interested in the information. Regardless of their motivations people want this information, whether to look at pictures of events they missed, or to stalk someone, people have uses for the information. There is just so much information out there that unless someone is specifically looking for your information they may never find you. However random attacks do happen social networks allow for the information to be easily accessible, and organized, just something to think about when using these networks.
