Sunday, February 13, 2011

Email, texting and twitter....& privacy protection?


Email, texting and twitter have grown over the last few years. 

At the moment, more and more people are communicating in new forms of communication especially in a lot of businesses today.  Everyday people are communicating in some sort of way by sharing their daily lives with trusted friends , family and  posting anything to everything where you just checked in, where you are going, what you were doing and etc. If you use it regularly you know it has made an impact on families and social groups that use to communicate very infrequently. When it comes to email, texting and twitter which of these have the least privacy protection?

Email is one of the most widely used forms of communication today. People were unaware of exacatly how they should use it and if it really was an effective way to communicate when it came out. Email is much faster way of communicating now but when it comes to privacy most people think e-mail, like letter, phone conversation are private. E-mail is quick, convenient, and cheap and is very un-private as it could be; email is as public as any postcard.


Majority of people in today`s society would rather text instead of talk on the phone. Texting is a fast and efficient way to communicate with people and get a fast response. When we look at texting we see a lot of issues when it come to privacy. People feel the need to use texting more openly compared to any other form of communication. It seems as though people are an aware of the information that they are exposing. 

Finally, we have Twitter which has grown over the last five years. Twitter a social networking site has become very popular causing peoples attention just like Facebook, LinkIn, Tumbler and any other social networking sites. As sites evolved so have our privacy concerns for signing up for accounts and being part of these social sites which included personal info. Twitter which is instant, quicker than email and texting are used so often today but what information is actually being protected