Ismet Ozkilic
The article “Social Media Explosion” was written or authored by Marcia Clemmitt, who has served as editor in chief of medicine and health besides her work as a staff writer for the Scientist. (Clemmitt 100) Given that the rate of adopting online communication is ever increasing, what are the potential limitations facing online users? The author’s main point is privacy safety of social networking sites (Clemmetti 82). She notice that emergence of facebook and photo sharing site have been received with a lot of interest from members of the public due to intensive fun involved with the media technologies (82, 89, 90 and 94). Although human beings interactions were once an occasional venture practiced by financially …show more content…
So far up to 80 percent of U.S teens are facebook registered members (Clemmit 85-89). As much as the Clemmit tries to underscore her security concern for online users this objective receives partial achievement. That is, as much as their potential treats related to security of [private information provided before access to online blogs can be permitted. Company’s owners have promised a counter strategy to this challenge by providing security guaranteed to online users. This has made many members of social media platforms to continue with this mode of interaction irrespective of whether or not their information would land on bad online cartels such as …show more content…
The writer is a freelancer operating from Washington D.C (McCutcheon 5). An important question facing on-line visitors companies, is hacking a reality in a new period brought about by advances in computing? The author’s main point of concern is safety of American’s online data (McCutcheon 1). As Americans adaptability to online communication increases at alarming rates, so is the rate at which online data is facing security threats. Evidence shows that individual’s private information such as credit card numbers and company’s secretive information are accessible by hackers who end up using such information for financial gains (McCutcheon 1). Statistically, about 40,000,000 credit cards have ever been accessed by hackers in addition to other 350,000 credit cards which were accessed by a hacker in Neiman Marcus’ Computer system (McCutcheon 1). According to the author, this trend has also been witnessed in government structures where sensitive government information is not longer safe unless very comprehensive protection tools put in place (1).
According to the author, recent government reports have indicated that the incidence of online insecurity has increased by 100 percent (doubled) (McCutcheon 1). This led to exposure of customer’s private data after access to company’s information system is breached. The ultimate results for such insecurities are customers’ loss of trust on