Privacy

New Media is great!

I love it. It provides for countless innovation, creativity, and connection. It is almost as if the world is at the tip of your fingers. However, that is not without it's downsides. They say that knowing too much may not be the best situation. I believe that, to a point.

There are countless of good things that could stem from the use of New Media. If used correctly. A vast amount of social media websites we use promise privacy and security. As this is immensely important. We accept only the people whom we want to share our content with. However, some websites do not hold true to that promise, completely.

Take Facebook for example, You think you are private. But are you really? Come to find out there are a million and one ways to secure your media that you can not fully keep track. Not even the wife of the Facebook CEO can either, In the article, Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even The Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private, the wife of Mark Zuckerberg experienced one of her photos being viewed and shared by someone who is not her friend. However, he was a friend of a friend. If privacy settings are not checked for everything you post, you may end up with this same issue. While a friend of a friend of a non- celebrity probably won't care about a regular family photo, it is still worth it to secure all media.


Privacy is immensely important. Check everywhere. Don't just go to general settings. Ned Media is constantly changing and with that comes privacy settings.

Always be on the look out, no matter who you are!