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Social Media

Thesis statement:

The emergence of social networking sites and use of social media have polarized public perspectives on privacy. While the 21st century has become synonymous with the use and overuse of social media, many experts argue that privacy ought to be maintained in online platforms as way of respecting individual’s right to privacy (Bill et al., 2011). To the contrary, others point out that privacy is long gone and social media users should not have any expectations of privacy. They assert that social media users are always willing to provide private information by revealing their locality, uploading photos of family members and providing intimate information about their lives. Such users should have apparently low expectation of privacy. In fact, Gleibs (2014) discerns that social media users are unconcerned about their privacy and whether they are tracked down.

As such, the emergence of social media has led to new perspective on the public domain about privacy issues. This paper explores the various dimension that the debate about social media has taken.