There are a number of social concerns of the development of social networking, these are mainly because of the ability to access people’s details. Most online blogs now contain personal information that could be accessed and used by the wrong people, crimes such as fraud and paedophilia are constantly being committed due to easy Internet access. There are other concerns about the increase of people’s lives revolving around technology. Obesity is an increasing problem in the youths and is seen to be because we spend too much of our time chatting, playing games, researching etc on the internet instead of spending our time outside.
The growing popularity of social networking is changing the way that we interact as a world as we are using more of it day by day. New technology is changing by social networking and mobile phones working together. Recently the Apple iPhone was released which features built in WiFi enabling the user portable access to social networking sites wherever they are.
Issues with censorship and control, mainly with fraudsters accessing people’s personal information are a common occurrence. The censorship and control in social networking was shown as having problems, in Second Life, users were able to form secret groups and have meeting without the owners knowing and perform illegal acts such as drug trafficking and paedophilia.
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