People all over the world, especially teenagers, use social networking sites all the time to keep in touch with the world and their friends around them. Unfortunately by doing this it typically means that people's privacy is at risk. When things are posted on the web for the general public to gain free access too, like Facebook and Youtube for instance, it becomes almost effortless for someone to find out information on any user of sites like those. An example, the infamous "Star Wars Kid" on youtube was ridiculed and bullied and dropped out of school to get counseling all because bullies posted his video on Youtube, a website for the public's free viewing. On sites like Facebook, when they added the News Feed application to the website, many Facebook users were not accepting of the new application. They disliked the fact that whatever you post would show up on everyone's news status. However, there is a privacy setting to allow only friends or certain people to see your information and what you post. That would be an easy way to overcome that obstacle. It is just hard to have privacy in a virtual world that allows free access to almost everything.
I find that people's privacy being at risk is something that should be taken care of. Although, when someone's secrets have been found out it does give them a chance to face their problems and grow as a person. I do think that this should be up to the actual person to disperse that kind of information and deal with it at their own will, not be found out on the internet and being forced to deal with it like "The Star Wars Kid." When it comes down to it, people have the right to keep their private information as secret as they want it to be. Which when you think about it, they should be more careful about what they do on the internet in the first place if that's the case.
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