Something that I was just sort of thinking about recently was the presence of social media in today’s world. I was just thinking about all the people posting things about the election and voicing their opinions. Yeah I was kinda annoyed about the numerous things posted throughout the campaigns and election day, but I figured I guess its good that everyone can just put whatever they think and believe no matter how simple or complicated (unless in twitter’s 140 character limit) on a public forum. But it also made me think, it may be not as great as it seems considering everything else I’ve seen from Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Its become something that has completely taken away our privacy, nowadays we can figure almost everything about a person from just “creeping” on their Facebook profile or following them on twitter. I’m starting to think that this is actually backfiring and becoming more of a bad thing than a good thing.

First of all, we’re losing our “right to privacy” the more we post on these media sites. Companies are now making advertisements directly to us, they know everything about our lives. Both Facebook and Twitter give all of our information to companies that want to target certain people. Doesn’t that make you feel a little uneasy? Plus, when going for job interviews, that company can just search you up and make a decision based on your profiles. We have completely exposed our private lives to the public! We can no longer claim privacy because of the internet, if not used responsibly. I was just thinking about this the last couple days and thought it’d be some nice food for thought and to just give some advice about being careful what you say/post cause you never know what the future may bring. Especially in technology and on the internet, or Worldwide Web.