Privacy & Confidentiality

I think that new media has impacted people's private lives.  What ever you put on the internet will be there forever, even when you delete it.  If you put your personal information on new media sites, many people will have access to it, whether you know it or not.  Some places that people put information are sites like Facebook, Myspace, and Instagram.  Many people have access to this information because they can easily hack the sites to obtain it.  Hackers have been smarter by using these websites to phish information using fake profiles and adding you. Your privacy is quite limited when you put up information on various websites.  Confidentiality can be traced by hackers as well.  People can easily track your IP address to find out who did what.  Hackers pretty much use new media to exploit people and make the internet an unsafe environment.  So people must be aware of what content they put on new media, especially social media sites and blogs.  You can be a potential target of hacking if you put a little too much information.