My four social networking sites are Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, and Facebook. I use them all on a daily basis besides Twitter. I'm not such a big fan of Twitter. I think with the recent updates of other social media sites, twitter became less attractive. Also, personally I don't like writing my opinion and putting it out there to the world where in reality no one really cares. The platform I use the most is Instagram. It offers so much whether it's news, entertainment, or simply stay in touch with what's going on with family or friends. The explore page determines what kind of content you follow and makes the list based on that. And I just like pictures with captions rather than just someone's thoughts typed in 250 symbols. I still use Snapchat, even though lately the amount of users has been declining. Main reason is due to Instagram pretty much taking every jewel Snapchat had to offer like filters, archives, location stickers etc. I use it because I like how it stores memories and I also think Snapchat is very personal when it comes to content. I've been using Facebook a lot lately. I actually like it a lot. There's lots of informational content such as news on politics and overall change in the world. I enjoy clicking on a video and it right away offers other content which is actually very educational and many of them point towards social responsibility which I think is quite interesting. So overall I think Facebook is the most formal of them all.
While the new media has been very useful impactful in our day and age, we constantly face a threat to our privacy. While social media platforms with its huge amounts of users are always growing, cybersecurity has certainly been lacking a real protection. Just during the past couple of years, we've had major news about platforms such as Google and Facebook wrongly using its users' saved data including personal information, preferences, pictures, and even location. What's even more worse is when we know that they sell our information for billions of dollars and the companies that invest heavily into obtaining people's data make their business decisions and aim at certain audiences based on the obtained information. Still to this day, we hear news about data breaching which puts us a society in a great jeopardy. It's not at all comfortable to know that your information and even info such as what kind of things you go shopping for are all out there in the open. It'...
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