For one week in 2012, Facebook manipulated the main news feeds of 689,003 users in an effort to determine how the social media website affects users' emotions (Meyer, NextGov, 6/30). To do so, researchers manipulated users' news feeds to show either mostly positive comments and posts or mostly negative comments and posts in an effort to determine how the content affected users' emotions. Some observers and Facebook users have voiced trust and privacy concerns related to the experiment.(1) This story was recently published in the news and is a great leeway into the issues and concerns a lot of people have regarding privacy and new media.
Creating a profile and offering certain details about yourself, automatically gives the site insight about who you are and what kind of things that you like. Type in "gold strappy sandals" into a Google search while logged into Facebook and surprise surprise......your news feed is now full of advertisements featured gold strappy sandals".
In terms of confidentiality regarding new media....yea right. By posting something on the internet, you are pretty much committing your signature to whatever it is you just posted. Facebook statuses and pictures can go viral and can even be used against you in a court of law! There are even hackers and identity thiefs out there who can give your site, or your friends site a virus that can steal vital personal and confidential information.
A good rule of thumb when using social media, it to give out as little information about yourself as possible and never ever post any information that could potentially damage you at some point in the future. Even if you block people, or even delete certain things, the internet footprint will always be there so please....BEWARE!
1.http://www.ihealthbeat.org/articles/2014/7/1/facebook-study-of-users-behavioral-data-prompts-privacy-concerns
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