There are about 2 billion people who are on social media worldwide. Social media is a platform where every one of these 2 billion people are connected and can share and exchange information and ideas through virtual communities and networks. These are a number of issues with the way people use social media, such as, the abuse of social media, the negative impacts on the time spent on social media and the fact that social media breaks boundaries of privacy are serious issues, which gives authorities reason to control and monitor social media. Some say social media should not be controlled as some information is vital and that maybe it is important to the public. However, reasons that show that social media should definitely be controlled are stronger.
The use of social media is abused when the gullibility of people is exploited and
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Social media can be used as a tool to invade someone’s privacy and it could also be used to post something really private and intimate online about someone else. Privacy settings do not provide enough security, as people can now, ‘re- tweet’, ‘re-post’, ‘re-blog’ and even plagiarize. Which allows one’s private and intimate ‘posts’, ‘tweets’ or ‘blogs’ to be viewed by a larger group of people than his/her immediate group of friends. An experiment done in Belgium, where a clairvoyant, Dave, claimed that he could find out specific financial information of the subject, which he does, later he reveals that there were a group of hackers looking at the subject’s social media to find out all the information. This shows that many people can see the information you put online, practically anyone can breach your privacy. This also implies that ‘privacy settings’ are not strong enough to protect one’s information anymore. This shows reason that control should be established, privacy settings should be stronger, and more security should be