The promoters of social media claim that they are connecting people and enabling people to share like never before. While critics claim that social media site often impinges upon one’s privacy. Discuss both views and give your opinion.

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Internet
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The internet
has shrunk the world like never before, people are more interactive and vocal about their
views but
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views, but
experts suggest everyone on the web have lost their private life owing to technology advancement.
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,
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essay will argue both sides of the argument and present plausible opinion. On one hand.
modern
used of a living language; being the current stage in its development
Modern
day
netizens
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(people who are active on the internet) spend quality time on social media on a day to day basis,
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, they can reach out any corner of the planet by clicking their fingers. Past decade people had limited intervention in political, social, or economic
matters but
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matters, but
today they are able to criticise the government while relaxing
on
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in
their armchair. To illustrate, individuals have utilised microblogging sites like twitter to condemn any social inequality, in
America blacks
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America, blacks
have been ill-treated and in an instance a police officer killed a black American during an investigation.
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issue was posted on twitter and all hell broke loose, people across the world flooded with tweets accusing the cop and demanded immediate actions against him.
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demonstrates the power of social media when used positively.
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, folks complain their private data is always under threat as the smartphones or laptops requires the users to allow the device to access their internal data or contact.
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stimulates data theft, as phones are vulnerable to hackers who spy on individual data and use against them. To exemplify, celebrity
have been
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has been
had been
the victim to hackers as every celeb owns a social media account, hackers prey upon them using
these
denotes a person or thing
this
platform to steal their private life photos and sharing it on public media, admittedly, data security is on
constant issue
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a constant issue
to
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of
cyber security, they confronts these issues on
regular basis
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a regular basis
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Thus
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This
social media is not secure place, as one imagines. In conclusion, it is true that social media revolutionised the way of communication and the trend suggest that more and more people will start connecting over
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platform in near future
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, privacy needs to be protected, the world wide web should indulge in guarding information and treat
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as priority as data leaks could lead disasters.
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