My grandfather says that life is a handkerchief. Anywhere you can find the person you least expect it. I guess you occasionally have wondered. - "Where have I seen that face before?".
is a folly to lose touch with people we have special appreciation. I suffered with my best friend. For different circumstances of life ended up losing contact with her. My unsuccessful attempts to locate in different cities, and phones and the Internet ended up running my patience. Ultimately gave up. Well, one morning when I went to the dentist with a toothache large crossed me and I asked myself. - Is she? Yes! - Automatically forgot my toothache, and after several seconds of confusion chatted after ten years of lost contact.
In our society, loss of contact with old friends seems to be no longer a problem. Before the case even if there was no theory of six degrees of separation. This theory says that any person can be connected to another individual in the world through a chain of acquaintances no more than five people.
Why say that now is no longer a problem. Well, the new trend of social networking on the Internet makes it easy to locate old friends again. What exactly is a social network? What began in 2002 being pages or web sites known as "circles of friends" has ended in websites where thousands of people registered. In short, are a group of people that interact in a real world and virtual. Thanks to the latter, Internet, can share experiences, photographs, hobbies, games, moods, etc.
not all advantages in social networks
There are some examples of uses that have had an impact even in the press. One case was the one that hit a senior Obama campaign team. During the election campaign has been named director of White House speechwriters "hung up" on his Facebook page a photo. It simulated touch a breast size of a figure of Hilary Clinton along with another partner. The latter pretended to give him beer. Well, that picture was circulated on the Internet like wildfire when Hilary Clinton was appointed as Secretary of State.
To take into account also the case happened to a young English girl of seventeen years of Brigton Hobday family. It held a party for your network, without really being aware of the significance that could have that invitation. Who else suffered from the party was a battered Victorian style house. Even the lights were left without lights. Graffiti covering some walls and even the grass was torn. The young organizer had to call the police when hundreds of "friends" packed the house. It seems to hang invitations in the network is endangered because there exists a group dedicated to "bust."
Social networks can also be used for political purposes. One of the recent demonstrations against the government in Zagreb was conceived and organized on Facebook network. There are many and of course, for different purposes. For example, one for financial shares information on investments, positions and statistics on investment funds.
One of the best known is Facebook. has some 100 million users and was founded in 2004 by two students from Harvard University who wanted to make a yearbook for fellow faculty. Recent years have been some criticisms of the privacy policy Facebook. While users are unilaterally adding the information they want. Remember that failing to manage the data network in Spain is not required to comply with the Data Protection Act.
Does our privacy is at stake?
According to a Sophos study , security company, 41% of Facebook users disclose personal information without any access control. To make the study came up with a profile it put a picture of a frog called Freddi very nice. The data obtained were:
- 87 of 200 users of Facebook responded to Freddi, of which 82 provided personal information, ie, 41%
- 72% of those respondents reported one or more email addresses
- 84% provided details about their education or workplace
- 87% provided their current address or location
- 23% revealed their phone number
- 26% provided their user names in instant messaging.
Improve privacy of your data in our network social.
Sophos recommends users Facebook privacy settings to protect your identity, think carefully about who is admitted as a friend, have a known version and one for friends, disable all the default options and gradually go activities when you have really clear that what they do. These recommendations can be extrapolated to any of the existing social networks.
In short, we find another example of the possible uses of the Internet. As always make sure that the system settings or programs that use really fits our desires. Perhaps it is worth devoting some time to this area before venturing to provide our information to cyberspace. And here we come ... I leave, I'll look for my fellow military service.
Juan WORMWOOD
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