Privacy & Confidentiality

In present time, Privacy and confidentiality are big issues of new media. We should be very careful when we use new media.Before people didn't realize that there could be identity theft via new media. Facebook, Myspace etc has big issue of privacy now.People without knowing about identity theft, they give their real name ,address, phone number as well as date of birth.For people who are engage in stealling other inormation this type of inormaton are really useful for them, which is risky for us as we loss our privacy.They could sale our information to other buinesses for their own profits.
Besides that when we post our personal photos online in social networks or other form of new media, all people in the world can view our photo which is not private and confidential. We are lossing our privacy without knowing it. People can also know our friend circle through social networks.
Some how, there is way to keep track of this privacy and confidentiality problem. When we create our profile we should be very careful and smart. Do not give your real name and address and click on the options where it say friends only can view your profile. If we do that, it will help a little bit to keep our privacy within friends only. But we cann't gurantee that facebook or other social network sites are is going to keep our profile safe from stealling and selling.