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debate It: organizing and Communicating an argument
PRO Social Networking Sites
CON Social Networking Sites
and rescheduled the downtime to 1:30 am Tehran time. The ability
to remain anonymous helped protect people who were spreading information in real time.
9. To make social networking sites safer for children, the sites have minimum age requirements and default settings based on the user’s age to protect children. MySpace, for example, requires users to be at least 14 years old, and the profiles of all users under the age of 16
are automatically set to “private” so they cannot be found during a general search.
10. Social media sites are expanding from general interest to more specific uses that benefit society. For example, sites have been created for medical purposes
such as dealing with life altering diseases, alcoholism, drug addiction, weight loss, and autism. Social networking sites with a specific focus help introduce people to others who are dealing with similar issues and provide information, contacts, peer support, and encouragement.
viruses or phishing scams, while most email accounts do scan the messages for spam and viruses through antivirus software.
9. The public nature of online
profiles creates security risks about which most users are unaware. Cybercriminals can gather information to be used for identity theft from social networking profiles, such as birthdays, pet names, mothers’ maiden names, names of children, and other details often used in passwords and security questions.
10. Social networking sites were created to make money, not to improve peoples’ lives. These websites use networks of online friends to accumulate data about people for the purpose of selling advertising. The sites place cookies on the users’ computers, gather information, and interests to show personalized ads.
phishing: trick used to obtain personal information from an email account
cookie: file added by a Web site to a personal computer containing information about the user
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