Who Give Rise to Privacy Exposure on Social Net Platform?

       As the co- founder, owner of the most influential, profitable social website, Facebook, in an interview with TechCrunch during 2010, Zuckerburg had revealed his thesis that “privacy is no longer a social norm.” His speech aroused lots of discussion from ordinary Facebook users to professors studying in mass media.

       For many may argue, or even criticize harshly, against Zuckerburg’s response. They may feel it is quite an offense toward human right when it comes to privacy issue. However, what I have discovered is the future trend of social web platforms.

     According to Zuckerburg, people have “really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds.” Since the blog open the new era of internet service, which suggest that we can also demonstrate our own opinions and feeling without the suppression from mainstream media, social web platform has developed for more than ten years. In the ten- year evolution, more and more functions are added, such as picture sharing, outside- webpage link… etc. All these innovations share one common idea: open. Namely, all these efforts are to make us easier to upload our information and share them with friends in cyber world. Interestingly enough, although doubt and criticism, people tend to be elaborate to embrace these change. Evidence shows how we love to demonstrate us on the internet: In 2007, take Taiwan as an example, Wretch blog on Yahoo welcome its peak with approximately twenty million users. But for Facebook, which is much more bald and enlightened in information share, reach one billon in user account during 2013. What’s more, this number is still rising. It is obvious that getting our information, no matter it is pictures, personal profile or our posts, open and even wide- spread is the future trend in social web platform. As Zuckerburg had pointed, our norm in privacy and social interaction is gradually vary.

     In near future, perhaps merely in one or two years, it is inevitable that we have to face the cyber world with less restriction in information share. At that time, it is necessary that we shift our notion with the tide.

 Sources:

1.HuffPostTech. (2010). Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Privacy No Longer A 'Social Norm. HuffPostTech

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/11/facebooks-zuckerberg-the_n_417969.html

Enemy or Friend? What is the Tide between Us and Social Network

           With the rapid growth in Internet technology, our social network has also developed into cyber world. Today for teenagers and university students, it is common that everyone has their own Facebook, Twitter, Weibo or Google plus. With a simple click in, people can share their daily life, pictures, feeling and videos on these web platforms with friends promptly. Same as the slogan posted on Facebook homepage, net do tide people closer. Just as the reveal of cellphone in twenty- first century and the popularization of personal computer during late ninety in twenty century, these social web platform dooms to become an indispensable part in our daily life. How we interact with people changes forever.

         Different from traditional social interaction, which has to be in person, on the internet, there is no obvious “distance” between people and people. Moreover, information, such as personal profile, images or online post, can be easily shared. It is a cheerful opportunity for us to demonstrate our story with others. Via social web platforms, we can share our latest film about the triumph in hot dancing contest or our excitement in our brand new motorbike in out photos. Besides, we can easily unveil our comments and ideas and interact with people. Generally speaking, the rapid progress in social web platforms functions as a kind of propaganda served merely for us, enabling us to create our own personal impression free.

         The good part of it is that people are now much easier than before to connect with others and to build personal impression by hands, while the bad news is that the more frequent we interact with others, the more likely we confront conflict, especially privacy issues. For example, once we post our ideas on our web pages, it is likely everyone can see it and leave comment on it. What’s worse, it is almost impossible we remove our post, pictures, personal profiles and videos completely after we’ve upload them. In other words, there is no absolute secret on the internet. This problem has troubled many net users. Thus, many people regard these internet platforms should take the responsibility for the privacy leak. However, I stand opposite to such an idea.

        If we look back on the root of these privacy issues, we may find the most problems is not website itself but ourselves. It is us that decide the setting of our Facebook. It is us that pose pictures, articles or videos which may arouse troubles in our pages. Before we sign in our net pages, we should be well aware of all these specialties in cyber world and make out our words with caution. Moreover, we should hold our tongue with caution. It is not merely about internet use, but also the common value we should always observe in everyday life. Only by such way we can be forever saved from privacy problem.

        In fact, social platform on the internet is more like a social media rather than a personal diary. We should take advantage on the benefit from Internet such as open, cheap and accessible.