Privacy and confidentiality goes hand and hand with new media. Social Networking sites allow people to display personal information on websites. The problem that occurs is that a lot of people do not know how to set privacy setting on their profiles, to minimize the amount of information being shown. Sometimes people get too open with their information and will put a status on facebook that says “just left the house for a 2 week vacation.” Now if someone looks on their profile page and sees that you are out of your home and your address is posted on the site, then u are vulnerable to a robbery. Another case of privacy invasion would be the fact that all pictures uploaded onto facebook, becomes property of facebook.
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