Private vs Public: Social Media


     Social media has played a significant role in the connection between friends and loved ones from across the globe. The sole purpose of this platform is to keep that relationship and build from one another. Social media also produces an area of content that can assist people in various things for example lifestyle and entertainment, cooking, and career advice. However, there is a question at hand when it comes to displaying information in public versus keeping it private.

    When it comes to the public display of information, it allows individuals to be aware of whom you are as a person or someone who you portray yourself as employers often time look at employees, on social media basis to see if there is a viral representation to whom these individuals are thinking about when you're putting in job applications they could ask for your social media platforms often time they do a thorough investigation to have a particular judgment of your characteristics. Also for educators if your information is displayed for parents and coworkers to see they could consider how your personal effects could impact your teachings within the classroom. Often time this can be a decent way to understand officials, and sometimes it can be misused. 

    It is essential to keep things personal when it comes to displaying information we live in a society in which identity theft can be one thing. In addition to this, there are very dangers that displaying information online can pose besides the obvious identity that we have individuals who are on the Internet that take that information and potentially find you in person. It's important to limit what things you display on the Internet. It is important to connect with loved ones from around the globe. You have to be mindful of the items that are present. For incident basics, security questions like a first pet name or even, the name of the street you were born some things need to be placed on a need-to-know basis. Individuals who decide to live a private life often time have a sense of relief when it comes to social media sometimes social media can consume us as individuals if there is a particular filter that comes into place for things that we encounter. This is why we must go back to an era when children who are under the age of 13 could not have a social media platform as such because it was dangerous to them, displaying information about their mental health and countless others.