Security - In as little as ten years ago it was difficult for someone to find information about you on the internet and misuse the information but nowadays people are putting a lot more information about themselves online risking the dangers of security breach http://www.buzzle.com/articles/security-issues-on-social-network-websites.html. The information that people give in the quest to establish online relationships can prove to be very dangerous and can lead to people putting themselves at serious risk of exploitation. For example, in the case of stolen identities people can steal somebody's id and use it to obtain a loan, credit card, mortgage and use it to use it. And this can ruin the person's credit http://www.pc1news.com/news/0423/social-networking-sites-could-be-identity-theft-traps.html. So if people want to start an online friendship they might be scared that if they provide personal information regarding themselves it might be used for dubious purposes. It is believed that scammers can find someone's password from simple information like pet's name or kid's name. So how can one really feel secured that the information that they provided for the sake of establishing friendship will not be used for other purposes other than friendsip? I am careful not to provide such information online but at the same time I could get carried away if I was communicating with someone and I wanted the person to know more about me and some of my experiences. It is still a haunting thought that someone out there on the web such as a predator that is watching people waiting for the opportunity to strike.
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Collette,
ReplyDeleteWhen you hear all these stories of people having their identity stolen online you get so scared that you don't want to have anything to do with these social media sites. Because of horror stories like the British girl who had her stolen online identity used against her,
http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=375 most people especially the older generation are skeptical about joining these websites. And you can't blame them. But the world out there whether on cyber space or otherwise is full of malicious people and we all need to guard our personal informations.