Are You Welcoming Intruders by Posting Your Whole Life On Social Media?

   Social media can be intrusive if you allow it to be. Limiting posting everything on social media is a way people can’t intrude on you. You don’t need to “sign in” at every location you’re at or snap a photo and instantly upload it to Instagram when you’re on vacation. When you do this you’re allowing people to see that you’re not home. This could put your house at risk for break-ins. You could also put yourself at risk of stalking by posting everything that you do. As you post things online anyone can see them if your page has public settings on. These intruders can keep up with your posts if they have your notifications on. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have settings to get sent people’s new posts. Save your posts for after you get done with an event. This allows for more focus on the action while you minimize the risk of intruders. When you sign up to use social media you should learn about the safety and responsibility of using it.

     This is why there’s a responsibility that comes along with using social media. You can’t put whatever you feel like onto the internet. The internet is a good place for people to put their opinions but they shouldn’t be hurtful or derogatory opinions. You can’t say whatever you feel like to people. There are laws that could get you into serious trouble when you’re on social media. Uploading fight videos and cyber-bullying people are examples of ways that you could get in trouble on social media. You should treat people on the internet how you would treat them in person although there’s a screen in between the two subjects. Posts spread very quickly on social media which can be a positive and a negative thing.

   An example of how posts spreading on social media can be negative is in every act of the terrorist group, ISIS. ISIS uses social media to spread their attacks on the world. ISIS posts threat videos online targeting a certain person or group, or they’ll take responsibility for a certain attack. Each of their attacks on cities has become a trending topic on twitter. The people that are going through these events in real life upload posts. This is another negative factor to social media. The people uploading the posts are putting themselves in danger by uploading where they are because if your friends and family can see it, ISIS can see it. During the Paris attack by ISIS social media played a huge part in the news of it. The world first found out about the attack through a social media user uploading posts as the events unfolded.

  This doesn’t mean social media is all negative. What I stated above has positive factors. The future of social media is unknown but it’s been bringing the world closer. I believe social media will find new ways to do that as time goes on.

                                                                          

                                                                                                       
                                                                           Waltzman, Rand. Nd.  avemariaradio.net. Web. 29. Jan. 2017.