Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Self-Disclosure and Social Networking

After reading this article it made me realize that maybe I should check my Facebook to double check that I don’t have too much information about myself. More then what is said on social networks and who sees what (which is still an issue) living is more important. I do watch whom I add on Facebook and whom I accept requests from. In today’s world you can hardly trust anyone and there are way too many incidents where girls and mothers are getting raped, strangled and killed, or like the Tyler Clementi incident, committing suicide.
No one really knows the true dangers when networking with others, displaying information, and constantly updating your status onto what you are doing. There are many creepy men and women that will stalk you, kill you, or what Keri McMullen went through, had items stolen from her house. Now days many people especially the younger crowd are way too reveling about their information. If you ever look on a high school kids Facebook page, in most cases you can see their page even though your not friends with them. Also, they have information posted from where they are to what they like to do, how old they are, where they go to school, and so much more. The safety of everyone is cut back now that we have displayed some to a lot of information depending on the person on Facebook, Twitter, and all those other networking sites. You can find anything on the Internet and were one of many out there.

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