One of the main reasons why i stopped blogging consistently is the whole privacy issue. When i first signed up for Facebook, i was determined to upload as many photos/ablums as i could and get as many tagged photos as possible. ahh young and stupid. I was lucky nothing happened to me personally, but after witnessing stolen identity, strangers using my friend's pictures and posed as their own and things along that line. i got scared and limited my picture uploads to only 'mobile uploads' from my then-popular Blackberry (So lame).
I took my privacy to another level when i started studying Internet Communication learning more things about social media and the Internet. It got to the point where FTS i dont know how to do deal with Facebook ever-changing privacy settings that i kept my tagged photos to myself, deleted all unnecessary albums (lol, party pictures = delete, drunk pictures = delete) and my new life on Facebook started in 2013. i decided to stop sharing my life. I dont post my relationships and my family, except my niece because she is too cute. That is a struggle i am trying to overcome - stop oversharing my niece's photos for her future digital footprint, she is toooooo cute to just keep to ourselves!!!!! So now, what i share on social medias especially Facebook has a reason. When i post a picture up could because there is a particular person i want to see the picture, update friends on Facebook about my life or vain reasons; i think i look pretty (i see nothing wrong with sharing a pretty picture of me, ahahhah :P).
Why i am talking about privacy is...recently i thought of deactivating my Facebook (this has something to do with me getting 100 likes on an Instagram photo, this deserves another post). As it is, i am controlling what i share on Facebook yet still feel so exposed. I cant deactivate it because Facebook is the only platform of communication that keeps me updated with people's life at home, my futsal group, my netball group, my housing village and all things important. You can never win.
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