With new media this opens a whole new ballpark to Privacy and Confidentiality. It is much harder to protect the things you post onto your new media. Unless you block your profile from people, your page will be shown to everyone. People will be able to see your name, birthday, phone number, address if you post it up. There is a lot someone can be able to do with these information. For example, on this YouTube video, Sam who has 1.8 million subscribers, got access to females Instagram profile and pretended to tell them that he knew them. He then asked the females to give him their number and this was a way that people can pick up females. The females actually gave him more information by giving him his number and this can be very dangerous. They can take their identity and this is called identity theft. With 1.8 million subscribers people will now know that they will be able to do this and might even try it themselves. This just goes to show that your information is not safe unless you make it safe. However even if you block your profile, it will secure your account a little bit but hackers has found ways to bypass this and steal your information. With new social media sites occurring rapidly the new social media sites will have flaws within their system and hackers will figure it out ways to get through them.
Youtube Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDZXzpiQ_ME
I totally agree, I don't think people understand how important this is and how their safety is also important. There are people out there that post everything up for the public to see and that jeopardizes their safety. Be wise about what you put out there for the world to see, think twice about your safety before letting the public see your information.
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