How do you feel about privacy?
Based on the following infographic, you won’t feel too well. This quick breakdown delves into one of social media’s biggest problems – user privacy. If you’re not worried about your privacy already, you’re on the right track – it’s not like the FBI is trying to mine social data to scout out potential threats.
Nothing wrong here:
In an Associated Press report , an FBI spokesman downplayed potential privacy issues, saying the system would be used only to monitor publicly available information and not to focus on specific individuals or groups.
So as long as your Facebook/Twitter posts aren’t public, you don’t have to worry about the FBI riffling through your personal status updates/tweets!
![The Sad State of Social Media Privacy [infographic by MDG Advertising]](http://www.mdgadvertising.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/the-sad-state-of-social-media-privacy-infographic.png "The Sad State of Social Media Privacy [infographic by MDG Advertising]")
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This is a very interesting infographic. One can identify how the social media is still important. As Andrew Keen says the digital world has decreased, peoples’ inhibitions who are no longer so concerned with keeping personal information private. This overriding importance of digital media over privacy concerns, has driven us to be the “Wikileakers of our own lives”.
Zuckerberg notes how personal information doubles year after year, which shows how social media is becoming more widely accepted by its users as part of social life. is this a constructed trap to make people give more information? Is this really just a way to manage to interact and connect with long lost friends or far away friends? This makes us wonder if there really is online privacy.