HIDING IN THE SHADOWS OF CYBERSPACE

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By Sohee Pyo

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As we want to know every de-tail about celebrities, news sto-ries, and popular culture stories

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SOCIAL MEDIA ALLOWS PEOPLE TO READ, REACT, AND SHARE such JUICY INFORMATION

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In Q1 2013 Facebook re-ports, MONTHLY ACTIVE USERS were 1.11 BIL-LION as of March 31 an in-crease of 23% YOY

1 Million Websites have in-tegrated with facebook

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Online Voyeurism

The Idea Of Looking And Not Touching

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Voyeurs can “anonymously sit and watch people broadcast their lives to the world.”

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helps us create fake identities, and helps us creep on the identi-ties of oth-ers without them know-ing

ANONYMITY

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Anonymity online is so easy

18-24-year-olds on Facebook have 510 friends on average. sourced from Marketing Charts

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A result of information overload creates false ex-citement in a desperate bid to attract audiences

Paradoxically news sources and distribu-tion platforms are increasing, BUT capac-ity to provide quality news is diminishing

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Voyeuristic tendencies prove how nosy we have become

observation of “friends” has become voyeurismDialogue has become shouting matches

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Relentless FB newsfeeds provide fairly unnecessary level of connectivity

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question

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WHO IS TRULY A FRIEND? AND WHO IS A MERE ACQUAIN-TANCE?

This ambiguity helped spawned the term

“Facebook stalking”

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85% of women are annoyed by their friends on Facebook. (Web Pro

News))

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YET 25% of users don’t bother with Privacy Set-

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CHECK YOUR FACEBOOK PRI-VACY SETTINGSDON'T LET VIRTUAL VOYEURS RUIN YOUR DAY.

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1. www.alanrudnick.org/2012/09/18/kate-middleton-and-social-media-voyeurism/

2. investor.fb.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=7610903. www.datadial.net/blog/index.php/author/joe/4. nmincite.com/friends-frenemies-why-we-add-and-remove-face-book-friends/5. www.digiday.com/platforms/1-alarming-stats-social-media/6. twitter.com/FactHive/status/3301175330237317137. theconversation.com/the-paucity-of-information-overload-12203

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