The Dark Side of Social Media: Risks and Dangers of Using Apps
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2SOCIAL MEDIA
In the modern day scenario the technology is developing great deal and this has become
one of the most common and incorrigible part if life of mankind1. However just as there are two
different sides of the same coin there is both the positive and the negative sides there are also
both good and the bad things that are emerging due to this large scale development of the
scientific and the technological apps. I have always been a tech savvy person and I am very
much accustomed in using these apps2. However as time is passing and I am growing up I can
see that there are many evil impacts that is emerging around us. This is really a very alarming
thing. Often there are incidences like the personal pictures of people getting leaked from places.
Often the apps that we install on our phones use our address, age name and many other such
personal information and it gets into the hands of so many different people. This is very
dangerous. One feature that I have lately been observing is that while opening the accounts in the
facebook, I have to enter all the personal details like my name, my age, my address and even my
contact information. Without this information I cannot even create any account over there as
there is this verification process as well3. However the thing that is the matter of concern, is the
fact that there can be some or the hackers out there who will be using all these personal
information for some illegal or unethical activities. There is often this option that I get while
operating and working with these apps. I get this option where the login process asks me if I am
1 Das, Ashish K., Quynh Thi Nguyen, and Susan Thomas. "Entertaining whilst defacing
websites: Psychological games for hackers." Issues in Informing Science and Information
Technology 14 (2017): 219-227.
2 Das, Ashish K., Quynh Thi Nguyen, and Susan Thomas. "Entertaining whilst defacing
websites: Psychological games for hackers." Issues in Informing Science and Information
Technology 14 (2017): 219-227.
3 Gupta, Brij, Dharma P. Agrawal, and Shingo Yamaguchi, eds. Handbook of research on
modern cryptographic solutions for computer and cyber security. IGI Global, 2016.
In the modern day scenario the technology is developing great deal and this has become
one of the most common and incorrigible part if life of mankind1. However just as there are two
different sides of the same coin there is both the positive and the negative sides there are also
both good and the bad things that are emerging due to this large scale development of the
scientific and the technological apps. I have always been a tech savvy person and I am very
much accustomed in using these apps2. However as time is passing and I am growing up I can
see that there are many evil impacts that is emerging around us. This is really a very alarming
thing. Often there are incidences like the personal pictures of people getting leaked from places.
Often the apps that we install on our phones use our address, age name and many other such
personal information and it gets into the hands of so many different people. This is very
dangerous. One feature that I have lately been observing is that while opening the accounts in the
facebook, I have to enter all the personal details like my name, my age, my address and even my
contact information. Without this information I cannot even create any account over there as
there is this verification process as well3. However the thing that is the matter of concern, is the
fact that there can be some or the hackers out there who will be using all these personal
information for some illegal or unethical activities. There is often this option that I get while
operating and working with these apps. I get this option where the login process asks me if I am
1 Das, Ashish K., Quynh Thi Nguyen, and Susan Thomas. "Entertaining whilst defacing
websites: Psychological games for hackers." Issues in Informing Science and Information
Technology 14 (2017): 219-227.
2 Das, Ashish K., Quynh Thi Nguyen, and Susan Thomas. "Entertaining whilst defacing
websites: Psychological games for hackers." Issues in Informing Science and Information
Technology 14 (2017): 219-227.
3 Gupta, Brij, Dharma P. Agrawal, and Shingo Yamaguchi, eds. Handbook of research on
modern cryptographic solutions for computer and cyber security. IGI Global, 2016.
3SOCIAL MEDIA
giving permission to those apps for getting the access to all the posts that I am sharing on my
facebook. By doing this I am actually giving the permission to many of the companies for getting
the access to all these things that I post on my face book wall4.
It is in this way that I am giving permission to all these companies to spy on me 5. They
can post many messages on my wall on my behalf6. This will be very dangerous, as they can also
use this information to post some illegal or some bad messages on the profile. This will surely
not be known to my contacts on the face book and this will be surely not known to any of my
contacts or my friends who are there in my friend list. As a result of this, there will be a very bad
reputation that I will get upon myself. As a result of this, people will think that I have posted all
these information myself7.
The other example is the LinkedIn. I have known this very well as I have grown up. This
is because with age I have completed my degrees and I felt that I have to look for jobs. The best
pace for looking for jobs is the LinkedIn. This is the place where I have the chance and the
opportunity for getting noticed by so many different recruiters. Initially I felt that I will get
noticed by so many recruiters here and I will get a good job. At the same time there are many
4 Bert, Fabrizio, et al. "Smartphones and health promotion: a review of the evidence."
Journal of medical systems 38.1 (2014): 9995.
5 Silva, Leandro Araújo, et al. "Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media."
ICWSM. 2016.
6 Taylor, Robert W., Eric J. Fritsch, and John Liederbach. Digital crime and digital
terrorism. Prentice Hall Press, 2014.
7 Hochberg, Katrin, Jochen Kuhn, and Andreas Müller. "Using Smartphones as
Experimental Tools—Effects on Interest, Curiosity, and Learning in Physics Education."
Journal of Science Education and Technology (2018): 1-19.
giving permission to those apps for getting the access to all the posts that I am sharing on my
facebook. By doing this I am actually giving the permission to many of the companies for getting
the access to all these things that I post on my face book wall4.
It is in this way that I am giving permission to all these companies to spy on me 5. They
can post many messages on my wall on my behalf6. This will be very dangerous, as they can also
use this information to post some illegal or some bad messages on the profile. This will surely
not be known to my contacts on the face book and this will be surely not known to any of my
contacts or my friends who are there in my friend list. As a result of this, there will be a very bad
reputation that I will get upon myself. As a result of this, people will think that I have posted all
these information myself7.
The other example is the LinkedIn. I have known this very well as I have grown up. This
is because with age I have completed my degrees and I felt that I have to look for jobs. The best
pace for looking for jobs is the LinkedIn. This is the place where I have the chance and the
opportunity for getting noticed by so many different recruiters. Initially I felt that I will get
noticed by so many recruiters here and I will get a good job. At the same time there are many
4 Bert, Fabrizio, et al. "Smartphones and health promotion: a review of the evidence."
Journal of medical systems 38.1 (2014): 9995.
5 Silva, Leandro Araújo, et al. "Analyzing the Targets of Hate in Online Social Media."
ICWSM. 2016.
6 Taylor, Robert W., Eric J. Fritsch, and John Liederbach. Digital crime and digital
terrorism. Prentice Hall Press, 2014.
7 Hochberg, Katrin, Jochen Kuhn, and Andreas Müller. "Using Smartphones as
Experimental Tools—Effects on Interest, Curiosity, and Learning in Physics Education."
Journal of Science Education and Technology (2018): 1-19.
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