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Social Media And Privacy Issues - Assignment

   

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Running Head: Social Media And Privacy IssuesEthical Issues in Social Media and Privacy IssuesAssignment 3: Applying Ethical TheoryName:Number:Name
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Social Media And Privacy Issues2IntroductionIn the current Scenario, new media and technologies for social networking are hitting the tippoint for rising of the ethical issues in social media. These situations are rising on the basis ofthe user’s moral values and the essential responsibility of the social networking sites and itsadministrations. It is essential to make the analysis regarding to the ethical issue being ariseon the social networking sites. It has become a vital role to maintain the privacy and from theuser point of view is to maintain the rules and responsibility so as to maintain the internetuser personal data (Arasa, 2017). It is to be demonstrated that the trust is to be maintainedbetween the online anonyms and the duty regarding the respect of the behaviour between twohuman beings. It has become essential to make over the societal, political and informationalpractices of beings and societies globally in response with the community ethics and itstechnology.1.Utilitarianism Theory-It is an idea where actions are performed on the basis of factual or erroneous dependingon the effect been made. It is one of the most influential theories in terms of moral for ahuman being. There are basically 2 types of Utilitarianism i.e. act and rule. Act isconsidered to be the ethically right if and only they produce at minimum so that the actcan be perform on time. Rule Utilitarianism is the theory if the action is performed oncorrect manner. With the effects of social media, these outlets generally allow a user topost anything that user wants to show publically whether it can be used in a positive ornegative manner. Generally a post which is regarding to the political views or anyreligious beliefs sometimes face a problem of scrutiny and possibly start virtual threatsbecause of the activity conducted against them. And the most common things are today’sscenario is the cyber bullying or cyber-attacks that can cause a big effects on socialmedia. In the Utilitarianism theory, critical or undesirable posts should not be postedunder any situations (Blank et al., 2014).2.Deontology Theory- Deontology also refers to duty based ethical theory which addresses to one’sresponsibility according to some rules and regulations. Technology has developed a newenvironment globally. Communicating, indulging and interacting with any social mediaName
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