Not everybody is happy about being in debt. People who are looking for a job should be concerned that they are being rated on social media sites. Companies have long used criminal background checks when someone applies for a job, but now they’re checking social media sites to find out what their applicants have been up to for the past few years.
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When it comes to appearance, we are sometimes informally issued a number from one to ten. What if we lived in a world in which everyone is assigned a number that tells everyone ELSE how influential we are, and this number determined whether or not you got a job, a hotel room upgrade or free samples at the supermarket? This is really happening to millions of social network users.read more
We told you that there are spies on Facebook, but what’s dangerous is sex offenders lurking on social media sites. Students and young adults are highly susceptible to being contacted by internet sex offenders from the very first time a chat session is initiated. A recent study found that more than two-thirds of internet sexual offenders initiate the topic of sex with middle school and high school students during their first chat session. The lesson for young people is: DON’T START.
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We’ve all learned that there are spies on Facebook, but despite this, the company has recently admitted that it secretly hired Burson-Marsteller, a PR firm whose clients include Microsoft, to generate stories critical of the privacy mistakes being made by its rival Google, as they fight over internet users’ time and advertisers’ budgets (both Both Facebook and Google have faced criticism for the amount of personal data they collect and retain online). When the agency sent these press releases to newspapers and magazines, it did not inform them that it was acting on behalf of Facebook. How can they get away with this?
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