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Dangers and Chances of Social Networks

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Dangers and chances of social networks

Facebook. A website, which always is discussed. Riots spread across Facebook faster than you can control it. Or how often it was in the news that unfortunately everyone could see invitations for birthday parties, only because you missed the small print.

How often on parties: “Let’s take a photo! “(No matter how drunk you are). And on the next day: You find the photo on Facebook (it looks everything else than pretty or civilized), and everyone laughs at you. None of us is aware of what happens with these pictures.People forget, but the Internet forgets nothing.

Most of all Facebook users don’t know how much personal data they give to Facebook and how the social network makes profit with it. In the following, I will point out the dangers, but also the chances of social networks like Facebook.

First, it is important to say that the 800 million users (in January 2012) are spending a lot of time on websites like Facebook. Especially our generation has a very uncomplicated and relaxed way of using it. So we’re giving a lot of information about us to Facebook, but we don’t really know what happens with it.

In a BBC podcast is said that Facebook doesn’t see the users as human being, but as an opportunity for earning money. Everything you are doing on Facebook is saved. It sells these information to companies, which create statistics based on the personal data or they are sending you commercials of products that you liked (Like-button), to make you buy them.

So the more information you share, the more money Facebook earns.

Besides, the posts or pictures are available everywhere and every time and you can’t completely remove it. For the developers of Facebook it’s anything but easy to ensure privacy and dignity to their users. Now they introduced a new feature, which shows the life of the user in a “timeline”, in which everybody can see the photos or videos of the birthday party three years ago.

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In addition, Facebook provides more and more services so that the users want to come back to it. There’s a big danger of getting addicted to it.

But Facebook also has its good sites:

You are connected with people and staying “up-to-date”. There’s a nice example of an old woman in a BBC podcast, which communicates the first time with old friends she hasn’t seen for decades. In this case social networks are a way of reconnecting with people and also an opportunity to stay in contact even if long distances don’t allow seeing each other every week.

In conclusion I have to say that I’m of the opinion that social networks are a great thing, but you have to be very careful to what you’re publishing. So it is your own fault when things get to Facebook, that shouldn’t get there.

When you’re taking a photo of yourself – naked – and load it up to Facebook you have to take the consequences of it. You have to think exactly about what you’re posting.In real life we are able to forget, but the Internet is not. So all the mistakes we are making now in posting our life in web will be with us for life.

There are these bad sites of social networks but there are also the good. Personally, I couldn’t live without them because it’s so easy with them to stay in contact with friends all around the world. At last, it should be a decision that everybody has to take himself whether he is willing to take the risk “Facebook” or whether he prefers to use the “classic way of communication”: telephone or letters.


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