About My Term Research Paper

The topic that I chose to do for my term research paper is Social Networking: A purposeful loss of privacy. Most of the research I did was through Google Scholars, I also used some news articles via MSNBC and other sources I got from regular Google. In the research, I learned that the issue of privacy is not only other people looking through your content but it also contains the problems of viruses and worms as well. Almost like the email problem where you can download a viruses without even knowing it by just opening a mail. I chose this topic because I thought privacy is a very important issue that everyone should know about. Especially now that almost everybody has a profile in at least one of the social networking websites such as Facebook, we need to be aware of the issues at hand. After writing the paper, it seems that there are many different ways in which the privacy issue can affect all of us. From losing your job or even scholarships to losing your data on your computer, it should be part of our everyday life to be aware of these problems. My paper helps contribute to the field of "new media" by bringing awareness to people and how "safe" or "private" their profile actually is.