Why Privacy Is the Most Important Word in Social Media
Social media privacy is becoming one of the most important topics online or off-line. This is because many businesses are overstepping their bounds as it relates to the use of social media information. To be honest, this is not totally their fault because the information is available to them in is legal to get this information. This does not condone the use of this information for what they are using it for. However, businesses will not stop using the information until the government steps in to stop them.
However, the truth is that the government is not that far away from stepping in to handle this problem. There are several cases being litigated right now that have social media information at the core of the lawsuit. These cases include situations where the social media information was used to disqualify a candidate from getting a job or firing a candidate from the job they had already. In the latter case, the worker was asked to give their password to the profile to the company. This sounds like a overstepping of the bounds that a business can require however, there was no precedent for this kind of action before. Therefore the business got away with it. At that point in time.
Therefore, the future of social networking will include the ability of a person to keep those things that they wish to keep private, private. This means that the informational social networks will need to be kept private, either by the company providing the service or user themselves must be very careful about what they say on their social profile. This is because government has not said whether or not a social profile is public domain or not. Many people believe that the government will roll that the social networks are private and should not be used for business purposes, such as hiring and firing. However, this moment has not come so everyone who is looking to use social media profiles needs to be very careful about what they say and what they share, on most of social network platforms.
The future social networking programs is more privacy and not less. This because social networks have already gone too far to provide specialized information to businesses that they can use for marketing purposes. The problem now has become that the social networks are providing too much information that they can be used for uncivil purposes such as hiring and firing. It is the best guess of the authors that the future holds. Regulations that businesses will not be able to use the social platforms for hiring and firing reasons. However, until this point the user of the social media systems need to be very careful about how they use the systems.
In conclusion, a smart social media user does not reveal anything they want to keep private on the social networks because muscle social networks will not keep it private. Therefore, and experience social media user will be very careful about what they talk about on the social network systems until the government steps in and regulates light is private and what is not private. This will give a social media user the best chance possible to keep their job or to get a new job.
Scott Buendia consults for Bizbuilt.com. All the views and tactics in this article are tactics and ideas of the author; they do not necessarily represent the ideals, beliefs, or trademarks of Bizbuilt.com. Visit his card on Bizbuilt here, https://www.bizbuilt.com/socialmediaprivacy.
