Social Media Privacy

No Privacy on Social Media Every time a photo is taken or posted on social media, the government will have access to it. There are over 66% of American adults that use a social media account on a daily basis. This includes over 900 million posts a day on Facebook and over 340 million tweets per day on Twitter (Browning). Everyone wants to share what they are doing with their friends. American adults want their friends to see what they are doing and where they are at. Through the whole world, people search Google for answers to their questions. Every time a question is asked on Google, it is kept in their database for over 18 months. There are 18.4 billion questions a day searched for on Google (Kerr). With every post on social media, a person
One of the problems is litigations. A litigation is the action of taking legal action. As more people are sharing their world on social media, they are putting themselves at a higher risk of someone taking them to court. In court, they can take something that was posted on social media and use it against that person. Very rarely the things that person said in court went against what they had posted on their social media account. An example of this happened in 2008. A person did not pay their mortgage lender. This person changed their phone number and their job, but did not change the privacy settings on their Facebook account. One of the person's friends added a picture of them with a location. The lender then tracked this person using their Facebook account and gave them lawsuit papers
The employer may be able to find more information then they asked in an interview. They may find information about the sexual orientation, religion, pregnancy or race. The people who are applying for the job said that this was an invasion of their privacy. If the information is not needed in an interview, then they should not be able to find it out in another way. Employers can also look at the profile after the person is hired. They are able to make cases out of what the employees said on the social media page. Employers are firing people because of something they posted that was leaking too much information about the company or something that they make. The employee is able to place harassment charges on another employee or the boss about what they have posted about. This is also an invasion of privacy on the employee, if this is used against them. The employee has a right to post what they want to. There is a new thing in the working environment called “Facebook firing.” This means that an employer used Facebook to later fire someone they had working for them