Social Media?

Privacy?

What’s that?!

In less colorful terms…Social media is how we stay connected. It’s how we can see what our old high school friends are doing, what party everyone is going to tonight, or what your parents are up to…

Have you ever made your profile private? Or hidden photo albums from your family?

Privacy settings are something to be taken seriously

We all need to be aware and active

Are you tweets locked?

Privacy?

….and Facebook?

Who uses social media?

We’ve all been faced with this…

Typical teens today

Better question: who doesn’t?

SO WHAT! Nothing bad can happen to you.

It’s just Facebook, right?

College students lose scholarships or get in trouble because of a photo album.

Teens are being stalked and molested because they check in everywhere they go on foursquare.

You don’t get that job because you tweeted about drinking all night.

Criticisms!

Let’s look at it this way….

We’re all smart people, right? If we don’t want a stranger to know something then we simply will not post it on the

internet for a stranger to see.You would think so anyway.

Simple would be teaching social media users to understand privacy settings prior to opening an account. Allow users to know what they are doing and who can see what they do because they even submit their first status or tweet.

Some believe that there are no issues with social media sites and their privacy settings. The only issues lie in the users lack of knowledge and awareness.

Consequences can result in our extensive use of social media sites. Think before you tweet, post pictures, or engage in any use of these sites!