Social networking has become a huge part of society today. It is integrated into multiple parts of our lives. It can be used to connect with other people, to help expedite a job search, and serves as sort of a background search for recruiters. A great example of the benefits of social networking is a site such as LinkedIn. For those who don't know LinkedIn makes searching for candidates for a job much easier. "Typing keywords into a search engine, Crawford can scrape the entire
network to dig out high-quality candidates that she can't find
elsewhere." It is basically google for employers. The downside, is that since social networking has become so important, it is hard to find privacy anymore. According to writers at U Penn, "Few of these users realize that the information they post, when combined
with new technologies for gathering and compiling data, can create a
fingerprint-like pattern of behavior." There are tailored ads base don what you browse, and people can find out so much information about you with just a name or even a google image search.
Works Cited
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/leaving-friendprints-how-online-social-networks-are-redefining-privacy-and-personal-security/
I agree that LinkedIn has been a great social networking website. I think LinkedIn can help many people especially college students find jobs rather than just going on Google or in person to find jobs. I also agree that there is limited privacy when it comes to social networking sites such as Facebook. Facebook has many privacy settings but the normal person on Facebook won't know what any of it means which becomes problematic privacy wise.
ReplyDeleteIt is upsetting that there has no been a good balance between being connected and keeping privacy yet. Hopefully it can be solved in the future, but I agree that we are losing more privacy everyday with social networking.
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