Privatliv på sociale medier

The text is an article by Alison George, where she reports on the end of privacy as we know it. For just a few years ago, it wasn’t normal to share personal details. Nowadays it is extremely common for everyone to share their most personal details with anyone on social networks like Facebook or MySpace. Even with the possibility to make your personal details private, doesn’t many users take use of this opportunity. Will the live to regret this? One thing is for curtain, employers Google the candidates and uses the profile information’s to make their mind, whether to employ the candidate or not.Fred Stutzman, a researcher at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who studies identity and social networks says "There’s no real-world parallel. You don't go walking round the mall telling people whether you are straight or gay." But millions of people do it on their Facebook account and is considered normal.

Another thing is that some profile information isn’t trustable. In many cases, it’s dating profiles where people try to “spice up” themselves.As people become more tolerant and use to online openness, they may reconsider their opinion about what’s privat or not.

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