Social Media

Social Media is a popular phrase that sums up all social interaction. These sites and apps are often like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn and etc. if one was to break down the meaning of social media in two words the "social" part in social media refers to the interaction with others. The "media" part refers to the tool of social communication. Most of all social media have the same features such as user account, profile pages, and news feeds. But although these sites connection people in ways that it has never done before there is also some issues that bring up concerns. Major problems with social media is use of privacy and safety issues. A user's audience is bigger than they would ever know. A vast amount of information data is collected by third parties to sell their products or location data collected when post are made. Third party companies often pay these sites to sell user's information to them in order to products more advertisement's the user may like. There are different types of plugins and Ad blocks that users can use to not allow these sites to track them.

See Also

Data Privacy Standards

Data Protection Systems

Data Tracking

False Sites

Cyber Security