In the last 3 to 4 years, some names like Orkut, Facebook, MySpace etc... have become so famous among the youngsters.
What are these? What is the purpose of these?
All the above said are nothing, but social networks. They were started with the intention of bringing people together.
Often we may have friends in our school days, whose contact may have been lost when we go for higher education. These social networks were once a boon for those who were very much interested to make contact with their old friends. They could find those friends in Orkut or Facebook or some Social networks similar to them. Even I could find most of my primary school friends in those sites and could maintain a good relationship with them. But as time passed out, we could realise the threat behind these sites.Its really painful to find such things in these sites.
What is the actual problem nowadays related to these sites?
Let us see them.
People started using these sites to map their friends and relatives and tried to have a good relationship with them. But some started taking effort to create new relations. Infact, its not wrong to have new friends. No one thought that this would become a problem. Later on, it was found that unknown people started sharing even their personal affairs with some one whom they had never seen before. Some started creating fake accounts and tried to impress others, especially those of their opposite sex. Because of this the number of fake accounts in these social networks have increased a lot. Almost 45-47% of accounts in these social networks are fake.They are just created with the purpose of misusing some one's name or to achieve those which I had said before. I call those accounts as "Faceless Accounts".
The truth is that youngsters believe the faceless accounts more than the real people.
Who knows who is who? Only when problem arise and one tries to get the help of the Cybercrime Wing, the holder of the Faceless Accounts is made to show his/her face. It is really a very painful thing to see the youngsters moving in a wrong path.
Next comes the information being posted in one's profile. Every one have to be aware of the thing that anything being posted in the World Wide Web is open to the whole world regardless of the security that is being provided to your data.
I could find a common thing among the teens nowadays, Not only teens, but also those who are alder than them. They avoid even telling their birthday if some one in their class asks or some one who is real asks. But they would inscript their whole details including those which are related to one's privacy in these Social Networks. This is really funny. It is nothing but exposing oneself to the Virtual World which may contain more Virtual Characters than real characters. Everyone must know what details must be exposed in those sites and what details should never be revealed to the Virtual World. A lot of guidelines have been given in a lot of sites about what details need to be given in Social Networks. I could find some nice guidelines being given in the official site of Asian School for Cyber Laws. I would request all those who are using Social Networks to follow those guidelines.
The next thing, I would like to focus is the photos being uploaded in the Social Networks. I have seen people who hesitate to even give pose to a photo snapshot when their class mates or "Real People" ask, but they upload pics with hight resolution in those sites. I would advice them not to use such pics in those social networks. It is preferable to use a pic with less resolution or a pic that couldn't be edited so easily. Its because, incidents have been recorded regarding the merge of beautiful faces with some other's body. Often morphing is done. Incidents have been recorded which have even left people to make undesirable decisions(e.g suicide) after such things. In order to avoid such conditions, its better to follow the guidelines above.
Another thing which is related to the social networks is the, so called "Hackers War". Different community of hackers often play with these social networks to show their power and the victims are none but the end-users who are using these networks.
It is better to avoid the usage of third party applications provided in the Social Networks. It has been noted that some of the third party application exhibit keylogging character which is infact a threat to one's privacy.
A problem with some social networks, which I may call the "Broker Networks" are found to even sell the profile of their end-users to some other companies or people who may make use of those for their own purpose which includes masquerading. Not all social networks are like that, but a few...
Another truth is that, it has been found that, those who spend their time more on social networks and rely on them are found to be affected by some mental disorders.
Atlast, I would say, its better to believe real people than those you get over the virtual world. Who knows, some one may say himself as Adri Jovin and do something unwanted things over the web when I even don't have access over the internet. No one can see the face of the one who is in the other end so easily, in this virtual world. So believe real relationships. Lead a peaceful life. . This is for you and your life. Be satisfied with the friend you have around you and never search for a new one whom you never know before and falter in your life...
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