In social media sites it is almost impossible to differentiate
between meaningful relationships we adopt in the real world and the several
casual relationships formed through social media. Cyber bullying is common in
social network sites like Facebook and MySpace.
Teenagers are susceptible to the repetition of cyber bullying where perpetrators
secretly bully individuals. This usually affects teenagers and could lead to thoughts
of committing suicide. Social media can also be a distraction to businesses,
instead of an employee using these sites to promote their products they could
be interested in posts they see on these sites thus unable to finish their
tasks. There seem to be no privacy on social media sites. An example is a
picture of friends posted that was taken at a party seems innocent but an
employer doing a background check might have a different opinion of this
picture.
I agree many people don't realize just how public and permanent the things you post online are. Many people don't realize that although you have the ability to make your account private Facebook now owns the image they posted and it belongs to the internet now. Another issue is that people dont tend to think how the picture they posted in college can affect them as adults. or how one post you make out of frustration can impact your life forever. An amazing example of this is the teacher that lost her job over one simple Facebook post as you can see here . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU8m-4_CmtU&feature=player_embedded
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