Privacy & Confidentiality

I believe that people who use any type of new media don’t have that much privacy. Everything that anyone sign up for a social network, or a new email, and posted something online can easily and “unintentionally” lose some amounts of privacy. One of the reasons is that when we sign up for anything online we are required to put some of our own personal information. Now we have powerful search engines, such as Google, that can find anything in the website even the personal information that putted it when you sign up for a social network. For example, an email address of the senders could be retrieved by anybody using the direct quote as a query.

Also, when it comes to privacy depends on the users of new media because most of the people that now have social networks like Facebook, MySpace, or Twitter been posted too much information on it. When I go in to Facebook I see people write in their wall where they eat or where they are going to hang out in the weekend. I believe when it come to sign up for anything online people need to be careful because now anyone can search for any information about yourself. For example, there are websites like intelius.com and searchpeople.com that help people to find anyone just by typing their names.