Nowadays, social networking has become a necessary part of people's lives. It brings quite abundant benefits to people in various aspects of people's lives. People surfing on social networking can enjoy interactions with others who have the same interests, post their own opinions toward either a funny or significant event, record their daily lives and share them with their friends, and last but not least seek for jobs via the professional career social networking website, such as LinkedIn, etc. Linkedin as an online platform not only dedicates to job seeking and hunting but also creates a community where thousands of companies can post business recruitments and activities, and job seekers can share their achievements. As Langfitt states in the article "Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting" that Linkedin is efficient for HRs to explore job seekers' Rolodexes so as to scout job candidates by using just half an hour, and Linkedin is an amazing modern tool to develop a relationship. What's the exciting thing is that by using Linkedin people can set their privacy of choosing either to be open or not be open to the external connections.
There is a "dark side" on social networking when it comes to privacy settings. Even though there are privacy protection claims on almost every social networking technology, there is no absolute guarantee that people's privacy won't be leaked. In the article "Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private" Greenfiled declares that the privacy setting on Facebook is confusing because even if you click on 'share to friends only' for a post, some of the others that you don't know can still see it on their own Facebook. In Randi Zuckerberg's case, people find out that one bug on Facebook is its privacy setting. Since people have their friends but their friends' friends can still be notified by the Facebook system, privacy setting doesn't make privacy private. Social networking's privacy leakage really makes me feel worried about all my owns. Linkedin so far hasn't had such an issue, but what if it will be used as an espionage tool among businesses in the future. Thus, social networking as a huge privacy warehouse, it should take responsibility of protecting everyone's privacy and make this commitment solid.
Facebook Privacy Is So Confusing Even the Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private,” The Atlantic Wire, Greenfield, R. December 26, 2012, http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/facebook-privacy-so-confusing-even-zuckerberg-family-photo-isnt-private/60313/
Social Networking Technology Boosts Job Recruiting by Frank Langfitt, NPR, March 16, 2008. available from http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6522523&sc=emaf
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