In David
Emm’s article, “The Perils of Over-sharing in Social Networks”, the author has
presented some ideas about the disadvantages or dangers of over-sharing in
social networks. The Internet is made human life easier, therefore it has
become an indispensable part of human [1]. They
have become more dependent on the Internet, for example, online shopping,
socializing, and banking. Although the Internet makes human life easier, at the
same time it contains some potential perils. In order to prevent the perils of
over-sharing, the author has shared some tips to protect personal privacy from
social networking. The author has clearly and practically presented his opinions
by giving some real examples and explanations.
In the
article, the author has stated that over-sharing in social networks will cause
personal consequences and damage the security of the organizations. I strongly
agree with author’s views, because I has seen some cases about over-sharing in
social networks around me.
Firstly,
by sharing personal information, which might get yourself in danger. For
example, I had a friend who put her personal information on Facebook has cause
herself being follow back home by a stranger. The stranger got my friend’s address
from Facebook and followed her go back. Luckily her father came home at the
same time, so that the stranger did not hurt my friend at the time. After that,
my friend has learned from the incident and deleted all her personal
information in Facebook. Furthermore, sharing by personal status troughs social
networks will cause some serious consequences. For example, you share the world
in tweet that you are about to go on holiday for few weeks to Europe. However
you did not noticed that actually you are just told criminals that your house
will be empty for a few weeks. Therefore the criminal is able to collect your
personal data from several social networks on the Internet.
Besides,
over-sharing not only will cause the personal consequences, it could also bring
side effects to the organization. The author has stated that if an employee
complained about the functions in new software his company has just launch
through Facebook, he might get agreements from others who are using the same
software as well [1]. However, the employee
actually tipped off other competitor companies about the new software. Therefore
they could develop or acquire a better new software to take advantaged from the
application.
In conclusion, the Internet has made our life easier
but over-sharing could cause some unnecessary troubles. So in order to prevent
those consequences, we need to be responsible on ourselves and make some
actioned to secure social networking.
[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/david-emm/the-perils-of-over-sharing-in-social-networks_b_5005276.html
