Gomez- Perry 1 Daniel Gomez- Perry Mr.

Padgett ENGL 11028 22 February 2014 Annotated Bibliography Inquiry: To what extents can social media affect an individuals privacy? Proposed Thesis: The way social media affects an individuals privacy can produce negative effects on their professional and/or personal lives.

Clark, John R. "Social Media and Privacy." Air Medical Journal. 29.3 (2010): 104 107. Print. This article exposes a truth that is hard for potential employees to ignore. As social media gradually expands in our world, we are exposed with a more facilitated ability to communicate our personal information with the rest of the public. But when applying for a job these facilitated forms of communication can become a threat and comprise the chances of attaining the job. In this article the author focuses in how different social media sites can ruin chances for potential employees to obtain a job, and how social media can also affect the portrayal of organizations and companies to the public. In essence it is true because if inappropriate information such as: pictures or status updates are displayed, then the perception of the employer towards the employee will be tampered, causing the employees professionalism to decrease and subsequently reduce the likelihood of that person to attain the job. The author also exemplifies another scenario that has potential to harm a company. He states that a companys appearance can be unintentionally damaged by the inappropriate information that is put online by the current employees. This can give a bad reputation to the company and subsequently could

Gomez- Perry 2 damage their number in clientele. The author is very direct and demonstrates how all these networking sites are creating difficulties and challenges for the current and potential employees. Although many employers have guidelines and codes of conduct for e-mail and Internet use, social networking and media-sharing sites pose different privacy challenges that should be specifically addressed in a similar guidelines-based manner. Although a bit different and more complicated to handle the author has a point in this. By addressing the guidelines for social media and media sharing sites similarly to that of email many problems would reduce. He states that once this is done the current or potential employees and the companys appearance would not be at risk of any harm. The article in itself will greatly support and prove how a reduction in professionalism can be an outcome of poor privacy in social media. It will demonstrate how unresolved issues with social media sites are affecting many peoples careers and can effectively put them at risk. Debatin, Bernhard, Jennette P. Lovejoy, Ann-Kathrin Horn, and Brittany N. Hughes. "Facebook and Online Privacy: Attitudes, Behaviors, and Unintended Consequences." Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 15.1 (2009): 83108. Print.

This article provides information on how social networking sites such as Facebook can create unintended negative consequences on the users personal lives. The author fiercely professes how Facebook gradually affects the users and their privacies, and how their privacies can be subsequently ruined. The lack of privacy on Facebook can damage a reputation, and certainly harm the individuals personal life. The possible outcomes of an affected privacy due to Facebook can include Rumors and gossip, unwanted contact and harassment or stalking, surveillance- like structures due to back

Gomez- Perry 3 tracking functions, use of personal data by third parties, and hacking and identity theft. The author provides detailed examples of how specific individuals privacies have been breached and invaded, and how people have suffered due to hackers invasion of privacy and their cruel taunting. Above all the article exemplifies these peoples demand for the restoration of their privacies and their reputations, and how these social media sites should prioritize in finding solutions for these inescapable and mortifying attacks. The content of this article will really shape out the way the essay is going to speak for the affected personal lives aspect, it will really give a variety of examples and details in how personal lives can be harmed due to privacy in social media sites. Nissenbaum, Helen F. Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life. Stanford, Calif: Stanford Law Books, 2010. Print. This book summates in a small chapter the way in which individuals are harmed due to posts on social media sites. The author depicts how young people no longer care about their privacy and are ultimately getting harmed or punished due to posting ridiculous pictures or posting updates, which they eventually regret. She illustrates how this occurs in our social networking world with different examples of real people and their stories. She states that Facebook and other social media sites are trying to disseminate a positive aid for the public, but it carries with it a burden that can severely shape many individuals personal lives and unravel harmful consequences for the general public. She claims that social networking sites contain different types of privacy issues, the way it normally begins is with individuals posting information about themselves; later, when this information is discovered, it gets them into trouble. Particularly, she puts together many examples of how many individuals have regretted the posts they have made. Briefly, this chapter in the book is an excellent example of social media affecting

Gomez- Perry 4 personal reputation and peoples privacies, for the most part it supports the points of argument in the thesis and will definitely aid in creating a more well rounded discussion for the topic. Andrews, Lori B. I Know Who You Are and I Saw What You Did: Social Networks and the Death of Privacy. New York: Free Press, 2012. Print. This books is the jackpot for a multitude of examples of privacy breaches on social networking sites, there is an enormous spectrum ranging from intimate personal information being exposed online to professionals being harmed due to simple but disastrous posts online. Lori Andrews discusses how social media is shaping and forming our lives into less private ones, and how negatively this is affecting us in different circumstances. She supports her arguments with strong examples that discuss both the effects of social media on the personal and professional privacy. Particularly she exemplifies her arguments through examination and analysis of occasions in which different individuals were negatively affected by social media. One of her best examples for the breaching of personal privacy is: the social networking site Fitbit. Its infamy spawned when scandalous claims of exposing confidential information came out into public. Their affiliations in exposing intimate user information came out, and any one could see this humiliating information. Allegedly their users sexual lives were displayed online and were a Google search away from being searched. This is not the only example of horrid ways personal lives have been affected due to lack of privacy online, the author displays great examples that demonstrate really how personal lives can become damaged. Also Andrewss states how professionalism can also be damaged due to lack of privacy in social media sites, she puts great emphasis in particular to this issue in how dangerous it is for a professional to post information online. Especially to how by

Gomez- Perry 5 just one simple remark online their whole professional world around them can instantaneously collapse and crumble. Her different examples give a realistic view of how grave the situation is with privacy and social media, Leaks in social network information have led to people divorcing, being fired, being denied admission to college, and committing suicide. This will be a great book that will definitely create a good support for the two arguments that embody the thesis to my discussion; it will provide me with great examples and different angles from which I can view these arguments.

Young, Nora. The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us. Toronto, Ont: McClelland & Stewart, 2012. Print.

Different chapters within the book have a focus on the privacy of social media and its effects on its users. The book explains how posting information about oneself in Facebook has become global and is mainstream within most of the population. She emphasizes the idea about privacy in social media that, no matter how unhappy you might be with how Facebook deals with our privacy, leaving Facebook starts to feel like pushing yourself out onto sea on a solitary life raft, and waiving goodbye to the populated cruise ship having a party on board. In essence this is true, this argument has logic in that people would rather expose their privacy to the public eye than to not be part of sometezhing that the majority is doing. The author also emphasizes on how location based social media can potentially be harmful for people. These include Foursquare, Dodgeball, and Facebook Places. These can be a threat to a persons privacy by exposing a persons location at all times, it would not be a good idea to share this information specially knowing there is a chance anyone could see this. The potential for inadvertent sharing of location with the wrong people is worrisome, especially because social-

Gomez- Perry 6 network friendships are leaky around the edges. The author emphasizes how this new way of communication is creepy and in a way the individuals could be placing themselves into danger. This cannot only damage a persons personal life, but it can place person into danger. The author strictly iterates that by using these location based social networks you are begging for people to come rob you, or maybe even harm you.