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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