Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Advantage and paradox of social media …!

21st century is said to be an era of advancement in the field of information technology. It has much wider horizon than our imagination. Innovations are frequently being imparted to make life more convenient and to give you soothing experience. Cutting edge technology and brain of master mind software developers and programmers creates miracle. It was not possible to think about speedy connectivity from one corner of the world to another corner in the beginning of 20th century. Today new devices and gadgets are being introduced in the world market in every calendar week. Electronic technology and information technology both goes hand in hand. 

To have personal account on social networking web sites, mobile applications through which you can share content with infinite people are collectively called as social media, it has become basic qualification without that you cannot dare to survive. It means, it has been translated from want to need. Classmates.com started in the year of 1965 and should be acknowledged as a pioneer of social networking site and after that many websites had flooded the market and bagged huge response. There are certain merits and demerits of social networking sites. It enables a person to get connected with beloved one or anonymous but where there is a good, evil mind prevails on the same track. You will definitely feel quite terrible to know that your personal information or private data is being monitored by the web-site owners.

Recently, criticism of Facebook raised this concern on global platform. Facebook.com has revised its privacy policy and terms as a result it became more difficult and arduous task for users to obtain command on the data by keeping it private and confidential. This incidence took place in Europe. Government claimed that it failed to adhere to the cyber laws of Europe and therefore Facebook received shower of criticism and it was extremely untoward and embarrassing incident from company’s point of view, however it has some serious implications also from user’s viewpoint. Thus, it is a concern about user’s security and safety. Therefore, social networking sites are good as long as connectivity is in question but not reliable as long as trust needs to be considered. 

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