Social Media and its Impacts on privacy

Internet is considered the latest technology that has changed our style of living and made the world a small place. It has made knowledge gathering easier. Through the internet we can easily find out solution to any problem. Internet makes it easier to understand different culture. New technology frameworks have arisen that center on enabling this media creation: message boards, audience-driven review sites, blogs and comment systems, photo and video-sharing websites, social networks, social news sites, bookmark-sharing sites, and micro blogging platforms, to name some of the prominent ones. (Introduction, Pg: 1 Michael Mandiberg) Social networking is a platform for groups of people to share their activities with family and friends. Websites like facebook, twitter, wikipedia, msn, etc. provide us a virtual community where we can interact with the rest of the world. In the busy world today especially when one has no time to physically keep in touch with others these social networking websites is a big help. We always try to keep ourselves updated from the recent news and things happening around the world. Social networking websites cut the distance between individuals and groups and let them interact to each other. When people travel all around the world for work/pleasure, keeping in touch with their loved one’s has become very easy with the help of social media.