Privacy & Confidentiality

Growing numbers of individuals across the universe continue to use social media networks. However, despite the various positives of world involving new media, there still remains many concerns. Some of these concerns are privacy and confidentiality. In an article on the wire.com titled "Facebook Privacy is So Confusing Even The Zuckerberg Family Photo Isn't Private", it discusses some of these concerns. In the case of Zuckerberg his sister posted a picture only visible to her friends on Facebook, however it somehow became public. Due to confusing settings that allowed those tagged in picture to effect the publicity of the picture, is what essentially caused the picture to becoming public. We live in a generation where once you post something it has the chance of being spread and put out there forever. One needs to be cognizant of what he or she posts and make sure they are educated about the privacy settings of the social media he or she uses. On searchenginewatch.com it shows Statistics  that around 25% of users on Facebook don't use or are unaware of the privacy control settings.