Many people put their personal information online (address, telephone number, and so on) for purposes such as signing up for social networks or online banking. Is this a positive or negative development?

Currently, it is becoming increasingly common for people to provide their personal details online. From my perspective,

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it gives people more

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conveniences

, it should be seen as a negative development as the risk of cyber-crimes is

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considerably

dangerous. On the one hand, uploading personal

data

online facilitates our daily tasks.

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are effortlessly able to log

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their social networks because all their passwords are stored on virtual platforms.

This

also

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those who change their passwords frequently and often forget them.

Additionally

, by associating personal details with exclusive accounts, consumers can purchase online products in less than a minute.

This

is clearly exemplified when customers shop on e-commerce platforms

such

as Amazon or Facebook. Because their identity information has already been synchronized, customers can skip the time-consuming

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transfer money immediately.

Thus

, storing information online save people's time.

Nevertheless

, posting personal

data

on the internet makes

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potentially susceptible to criminal activities. The private information shared

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the virtual world including names,

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addresses

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and telephone numbers can be exploited for

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illicit

purposes

such

as financial fraud.

This

is evident according to the Bangkok Post

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that a middle-aged,

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hacker, stole 2 million Baht from

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by hacking her

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account in 2018 in Thailand.

Furthermore

, phone numbers and

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addresses

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shown on social networks can lead to harassment and stalking. A number of surveys demonstrate that during the

last

five years the number of women harassed due to the

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leak

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immensely increased. In conclusion, in spite of relatively minor conveniences, registering personal

data

online is definitely a negative development considering the risk of online fraud and being threatened.