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.