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Privacy In The Information Age

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Privacy in this day and age is very hard to get, almost everything we do say or even think has to be made public.We live in the information age and so in a way we constantly have to be kept informed about whats happening and who is doing what, gossip is a treat for all of us we love to hear the bad stories in the press or locally among our group of friends , who did what , why they did it, who said what and for what reasons did they say it.In a way people are so caught up in everyone elses lives that they find it hard to live their own life snapcaht facebook and twitter are all examples of this.
Individuals are entitled a huge amount of privacy on the internet and this shouldn’t be restricted in any way shape or form however since this is …show more content…

I don’t see the reasons why everyone nowdays os so caught up in everyones elses lives.What does it take to have a little privacy, why do certain businesses like banks and certain online businesses as well need so much proof of our identity, date of birth last paycheck etc, we can only g so far in proving our identity.Sometimes it is nice to keep certain information about ourselves withheld from others facebook allows you to do this if you enable privacy settings on your profile or something but yet still facebook still knows everything about your date of bith, where you live what you are studying etc, even one day if you decide to delete your profile , facebook still keeps your copy so in fact you still actually have a facebook page in your name but it is no longer active.Facebook is a very dangerous site, people can find out so much about you ,even if your info is on private , your pictures can still be shown t the wider public, these pictures might come against you for example when you are applying for a job or wihthin your friendship group for example if you didn’t tell one of your friends aomething and they found out through facebook.Twitter is alos another dangerous site, it os quite the reverse of facebook instead of putting up pictures its when you put up oopinions of what you think or about how you feel , you can also retreat or quote what another person thinks or is feeling.This can be dangerous as sometimes what you say or even how you feel can cause ofence to

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