Social Networking

Social media has played a large role in society, increasingly throughout the years. It serves many different purposes often leading people to debate whether or not the positives outweigh the negatives. Social media allows people to connect without others in a much easier way as opposed to many years back. It gives users the platform to share their thoughts and ideas in creative ways. In our society today, social media can be used as an outlet to find jobs as well. In the article titled "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" author Frank Langfitt highlights the many ways recruiters now use social media sites, like Facebook or LinkedIn to find employees. Langfitt states how a recruiter named Maureen Crawford-Hentz "can scrape the entire network to dig out high-quality candidates that she can't find elsewhere" (1). Although it's clear that these social media websites can have a lot of positive impacts in society, it also comes with a "dark side." Using these various sites so often can lead people to wonder whether or not their privacy is being violated. People tend to share their everyday lives so openly with the public not realizing that this limits their sense of privacy. In the article titled "Leaving 'Friendprints': How Online Social Networks Are Redefining Privacy and Personal Security" it is stated that "Lance Hoffman, a George Washington University computer science professor who spoke at the Wharton conference, noted that by giving up such information as their name, birth date, and a list of their network of friends, users are revealing far more than they know." The information that is shared on these social networking sites can often be undermined but it's important to take a step back and analyze the impact it can have. I believe as the years go on and as technology advances there will be an even more lack in privacy. Although I am excited to see all these new additions, I'm even more scared to see how far users will go to realize it's limiting their privacy.