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How Facebook uses your info.

Facebook comes out with a new and easy to read guide on what information they have access to, and actually backup. Information such as what you search, what you say, and your aliases are, are all being kept. This information is considered, "non-personally identifiable information" and can be useful for marketing, the government, and anyone else who might want to dig up information.

More and more employers are starting to make your personal Facebook information apart of the process in getting a job. The fact that there is personal information such as religion or sexual preferences may sway the employer to discriminate against a potential employee by making decisions based on the information. The question still lingers though, is this inquiry for your information legal?

This article explains how the balancing of personal freedoms works into the government and the workplace of citizens today. A big example this article touches on is how online activity can be monitored. What is really private today?

Technology is advancing faster and faster every minute and privacy is something known of the past now in my opinion. One of my teachers told the class that everything you learn about computers during your freshman and sophomore years of college will most likely be outdated by your junior year - just to help realize how fast technology is actually growing. Anything online can affect you now-a-days it seems. On the news the other day, there was a story about Facebook Friends and your credit. People are actually being denied car loans or things of that sort because of the friends they have on Facebook because if their friends seem unreliable and have bad scores, then the company will assume you do too. It's getting ridiculous to be honest.

These days employers monitor and know everything you are doing. Knowing this, I feel like if you are acting in a way that is respectable both at work and in your personal life, you will have nothing to worry about. I do not see this issue of lack of privacy changing, I see it increasing as time goes on.

Social media privacy issue.

It explains what people should share. Peiople workout and show off their bodies on instagram, facebook etc is it too much or are they just proud of their body changes

When posting anything on social media you have to accept the fact that everyone and anyone will and can see it. Also, there's no going back! Once it's out there it will most likely always be out there.

Social has become a little too invasive. I enjoy social networking but sometimes it is way more information than I want to know about someone.

Today's young adults, born after or around 1995, have most likely never seen a day without some form of social technology. #privacysecurity

Today's young adults, born after or around 1995, have most likely never seen a day without some form of social technology. #privacysecurity

New facebook policies are released in a lengthy email that explains, gives tips, and advises users when it comes to new policies.

Very short article on Indiana banning sex offenders from using Facebook. Protection of minors is their main concern.

Whenever we post on Facebook, twitter, or instagram, we leave traces of our lives and actions. Police can gain access to your social media sites and use it against you in court.

The article describes how we are will to show our lives on social media for anyone to see not realizing how much is not private. Then talks about how upset we get when the Government is looking at us.

wow this article really opened my eyes to how much I use and rely on social media without considering the all risk.

It is amazing how much information people put out there. At work, we have to take compliance courses every year. Just last year, they added a couple of modules on social media, and what is expected of you in relation to the information about work that you put out there.

On the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, threatening posts were made on the White House's facebook page. The posts were removed shortly after discovery and the Secret Service were to investigate the matter.

Big companies such as AT&T, Facebook, Google and Verizon are selling consumer personal data information. Such items as your locations from your phones to what apps you use are being noted big these comes.

A worker got fired from her job after posting a comment on Facebook. NLRB ruled that this woman rights were violated because there are federal laws that protect employees rights to discuss their workplace problems. Now there are new ruling that apply workers rights to online discussions to ensure employees freedom.

An article by the Wall Street Journal on how social media can and has effected peoples abilities to get jobs.

Psychologically it is said that we have many social scripts, in other words we do not act the same exact way around our parents as we do our boss or our friends. Companies that use social media are attempting to view how you live your life outside of work, how you act out that social script. But why should that matter? Regardless if you put pictures of Saturday night drinking it does not mean that this who you are in the office, they are two completely different script and for the general population they are unrelated.

I think employers should look at social media networks, people should always present themselves in a professional look, because there behaviors affect the company, on the clock or off

This site tells how companies are researching possible employees by there social media reputation.

Since I'm not the most social person by nature, I'm not very active with social media. I don't have a Facebook, or Twitter, or whatever. So, if anyone tries to Google me, there's not much that comes up. Hmm, I wonder if that could backfire if a potential employer can't find any information on me by using social media.

I don't believe that employers should be concerned of a potential or current employees social media sites.

As technology becomes more popular, we begin to lose our privacy. The internet is becoming harder to avoid, and personal lives are becoming more public. Websites track your use of the internet- where you go, what you do, etc. In some ways this can be beneficial, as people cannot hide who they are anymore. IRS scandals, disease outbreaks, companies abusing power; all at our fingertips. This has sparked the debate between what is more important: your privacy? or our nation's security?

This article explains that there is basically no debate anymore over privacy vs security; privacy lost long ago. With the advent of the "information age" privacy largely died quietly and without much thought. Now that things like Google and Facebook exist, and we spit out private information without much thought, the debate is over.