Social media is being used excessively throughout the world. People upload issues and news related to their personal/private life without having any sense of loss of privacy. Will there be any concept of privacy in the future?
good question. we live in an age where transparency trumps privacy.
children are going through adolescence with a new reality where if they are not popular online they will miss out a great deal when it comes to friends and social warmth in the real world.
we are asking more and more of each other and live in an always connected communication bubble. we have applications on communicating platforms where we can see when the other person is typing and when they've read our comment, sounds harmless but these types of fixtures encourage this world of voygerism we have begun to live within where we unknowingly spy on each other.
its sad and depressing to watch,if you want to see a reflection of our generation sit in the library and watch peoples online habits, its kind of sickening. we process photos and text and ridicules speeds without absorbing any of it. i once watched a girl bounce from six different peoples profiles and go through at least 5 albums of recent photos. i wonder what could of been going through her head. people who already have anxiety complexes and illusions of their social rank suffer a great deal because of social networks, people can feel a part of other peoples lives without even knowing them or interacting with them.
the lines of privacy are no longer drawn out in the sand.
this type of dynamic encourages the spread of personal information, usually to attract peers, friends and a partner. it also creates a digital cocoon where the teenager or child has to spend and increasing amount of time online to compete within the popularity competition.
this can sometimes encourage children to upload provocative images to attract more followers which in hand could possibly create a self identity complex where the user becomes fixated upon praise and could possibly become a chronic narcissistic.
sure theres still the real world arena as well but its a growing concern that our children might not be able to "switch off". they don't know the real depths of privacy, and their not really governed online anymore its near impossible. it angers me when people see this as a good thing and say we should all be more open with one another anyways. i agree we should become more sharing and not shy away from saying what we feel but to keep certain things to yourself, to be strong within your own core is a much needed tool for surivial and i fear we are losing are ability to be self efficient within every aspect of are lives.
sahifa i believe that we have already lost ALL of our privacy online and an awareness of this fact needs to be spread. a lot of people don't even understand or know that their demographics are brought and sold through social networks so large companies can home in on their niche market and send manipulating personalised adverts to our computers, this is just the start of what data mining companies use are personal information for. i hope this has helped with your question.
Social networking sites and applications must implement privacy preserving approaches/protocols to ensure privacy of the user and a lot of research has been done as well on privacy preserving approaches of data sharing among users. You can go through homomorphic cryptosystems like Paillier or Dmagard-Jurik for the same. You can also go through the implementation of garbled circuits in privacy preserving.
Hi, I have some articles about privacy:
Conference Paper Privacy-preserving resource evaluation in social networks
Conference Paper Allowing Continuous Evaluation of Citizen Opinions through S...
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