Many people are now opting to provide technology companies with their personal data in exchange for access to software. Do the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?
There is a rising trend in sharing personal
information
with companies in order to use the software. Although
this
can help one
to access
the application and create a virtual network with people
around the world, I believe that the drawbacks outweigh the benefits, because it results in the spilling of private data which could be misused.
Most people
are using many social networking applications
such
as Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram. Undoubtedly, these bring families together though they are physically apart. Through video calling facility, we can talk to our families and friends as though we are under the same roof. we can even make friends with whom we have never met before. However
, this
comes at the cost of sharing our personal information
with an organization that develops such
web applications
which is very alarming. This
information
can be used by anybody in future that can result in jeopardy.
Furthermore
, people
are unconsciously signing up the user-agreement page even without reading it completely just for the sake of getting access
to applications
. For instance
, an average of 200 billion people
uses Whatsapp messenger to communicate with others, which means that they have accepted to compromise their personal information
in exchange for access
to it. Recently, the company announced that all of the conversations can be used for other businesses and when agitation aroused among the public, they clarified that only business user's accounts will be monitored and sold for other business purposes. This
clearly proves that anybody can hack one
's secrets which include bank account details, family pictures, videos and so on.
In conclusion, although
software allows human to be bonded and engaged in many aspects, the sharing of one
's private data to get access
to mobile applications
can be detrimental to one
's personal life. For these reasons, the negatives far outnumber the positives.Submitted by nithyam88 on
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Answer the 'Advantages and Disadvantages' topic
IELTS advantages and disadvantages questions normally give you a statement and ask you to comment on the advantages and disadvantages of that statement.
Answer structure for the type of essay
- Introduction
- Body paragraph 1 – advantages
- Body paragraph 2 – disadvantages
- Conclusion
Examples to start your body paragraph:
- The main advantage is...
- The disadvantage of this...
- The main benefit...
- Despite these advantages...
- One possible drawback...