Before You Share, Make Sure That You Are Aware

Ali Eldous
Aug 23, 2017 · 2 min read

Most teenagers are facing a sort of privacy violation from their parents at a certain age in life, especially before turning 18. For example, coming into your room, looking at your computer monitor or checking who your friends are. That can be explained as fear of committing bad behavior and precautions parents are trying to impose on their children, to ensure children are aware of every step they take in life. But what about after 18 years old? What about when technology becomes the number one support-in-breaking our privacy? Who would care about your privacy? Of course, your partners won’t keep an eye when you become a grown man/women.

Some social media platforms gradually keep surrounding your information to best know everything about you, more than your cat or puppy. And thus, the habit of sharing locations, photos, videos, likes, dislikes, love, hate, racism were made possible and marketed as a daily life activity. LinkedIn, Facebook Family, Twitter, and Snapchat have enabled many people to connect with each other for various purposes. But we need to rethink in the way we are using these platforms. If you had a breakfast, lunch, and dinner in restaurants, you don’t need to publicize all these activities to the public. If you think of the human nature which likes to share positive activities mostly for the people around them and hides the rest, that is exactly what most of us do (including me). This has a negative impact on the people around you witnessing your activities, which may cause depression, jealousy, hate, and aggressive demand treatment. We need to be careful and not to be fooled for what we see on social media.

It's your own decision to select the approach you like to use on social media. Connect with your family and friends, doing business, knowing what's happening in the world, a curiosity to know and monitor people or to commit a soft crime.

I know I tapped into many bold lines which takes more to explain, but the reason I wrote this piece, is that I felt that many people are exposing their personal privacy on social media which will at some point be a breach and an indirect violation of their life details. And I end this by saying my favorite statement:

“Before you share, make sure that you’re aware”

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