2013年10月3日 星期四

Issue paper: Is Facebook a tool of social communication or a platform for personal feeling?

Issue paper: Is Facebook a tool of social communication or a platform for personal feeling?

The online social networking service, Facebook, is so popular with people all over the world. According to statistics, the user of Facebook has now over one billion, which is relevant to the third largest country in the world. Every moment, we can easily track our friends by their updates or photos they are tagged in. And we can also send private messages within few seconds. But these instant information reveal the problem of privacy. Even if you don’t want to share about yourself, your friends can tagged you in his/hers updates to preserve as diary.
     I believe that many people have such experience when you have to contact with the strangers. You will search the name on Facebook and sometimes even check the photos to see what the stranger looks like. Such act like that may cause the inner pressure toward certain people and invading their privacy. Although you can hind some of the personal information, Facebook may possibly disclose them if you don’t pay attention to check the setup of your profile page.
     As you using Facebook to share yourself, you can’t guarantee other person’s thought, and whether they really care or just trying to exploit from you. Considering the fact that Facebook is now a listed company, it is inevitable for people to think if their personal likes and dislikes were sold to others for advertising data. Some applications are even found accessing the user’s data when users are off-line. Sharing yourself is not as simple as before. This act might make you like an open book, which is easy to predict and control.
     Yes, Facebook do offer a lot of convenience for people to contact each other. But we shouldn't regard it as a platform to share personal feelings. Once we have the possibility getting harm by our unconscious disclosure, it would be better if we don’t use Facebook too often and share too many information.

1 則留言:

  1. The examples you choose as well as your description are quite vivid and interesting. I have encountered both cases in my Facebook experience. For your article, I think if you put such as moreover or furthermore in your beginning sentence, your two example will have much closer tide. Then your thesis may go stronger.

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