Once a person engages in social media, they voluntarily give up a portion of their privacy, with Facebook being the most significant example. On Facebook, users are constantly updating status, listing their interests and personal info, uploading photos, and sharing other pages, images and videos from the internet. Depending on each individual users settings, either just their friends can see their information and what they post and share, or anyone can see their information and what they post and share.
An advantage to Facebook is how quickly things circulate. This is useful to get information to people regarding an issue going on in the world, or to get the word out about an upcoming event or if you need to get in touch with a large group of people. The rapid circulation of things on Facebook can also be negative. You can control what you upload to social media sites, but you cannot control what other people upload. As discussed in the Newsweek article images and videos of rape at parties can go viral extremely quickly ruining the of the victims. Images and videos that were not even known to have existed to the victim until they were seen by everyone. Once something is uploaded to social media it is hard to control it. Even after images videos, or posts have been "deleted" they can still be found if someone digs deep enough.
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