Is Internet privacy dead?

This is an image that shows the invasion of privacy of the Internet.
(Source: Google.com, 2009)

The Internet is defined as the most powerful and efficient tools in the communication world. It enables people to keep on touch and communicate with each other in any part of the world. The innovations of the Internet are making it faster and reliable especially when we search for information. For example like Google. We can an unlimited amount of useful and reliable information with sources on almost all kind of topics we want on the Internet. Besides that, we can get any services we want on the Internet such as online banking, job vacancy, buying movie tickets and making hotel reservations. Therefore, we do not have to go all the way to the place to get our things done. Students and young adults are the categories who have the highest percentage of surfing the Internet. Nowadays, almost everything is computerised. In colleges and universities, all the students have an ID to excess to their student portal to check the latest updates from their lecturers.
However, as technology becomes more advance, information can be access and shared. "Anything you put on the Internet will be grabbed, indexed, catalogued, and out of your control before you know it”. (Rambam, 2008). According to Rambam, all types of information especially private and confidential documents in the Internet can be copied or scanned. Then they are being sold to the company’s competitors, agencies and anyone who can pay.
Moreover, some teens are addicted to the Internet. They use the Internet for the wrong purpose. Facebook is the best example as it has one of the highest numbers of users and fastest growing social networking website on the Internet. They have the ability to reconnect us with our friends and keep in touch with the people we know. Due to this, people will spend most of their time on the website stalking on other people’s profile, commenting on their pictures and walls which can affect one’s personal or working life if too much time is spent on Facebook that makes them cannot concentrate on studies or work. Sometimes, it is dangerous as we may be exposed to harassment and identity fraud when we include personal information on our profile without setting a private profile. There are many cases that teens and young adults get sexually harassed and cheated when they share too much information on Facebook.
Bradley (2010) states that social networking sites like Facebook exist to share information. Therefore, it is essential for us to be aware that privacy is not dead and it is vital for users to concern about the issue regarding privacy in mind as technology may help and also harm us as well.

References:

Bradley, 2010, Privacy is Not Dead, Just Evolving, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/191506/privacy_is_not_dead_just_evolving.html

Fraser, 2010, Disadvantages of Facebook, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.helium.com/items/1820836-disadvantages-of-facebook

Goessl, 2010, Disadvantages of Facebook, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.helium.com/items/1518188-disadvantages-of-being-a-facebook-member-social-networking

Mills, E 2008, ‘The Internet- A Private Eye’s Best Friend,’ Age 20 July, viewed 16 June 2010, http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-9995207-83.html

Pakhare, 2010, Advantages and Disadvantages of the Internet, viewed 14 June 2010, http://www.buzzle.com/articles/advantages-disadvantages-internet.html