My Social Media, My Privacy
My Social Media, My Privacy
Social media is a world where most people find relief, comfort and a home. For me, social media is one of the places where I can boldly relate with anyone and express myself to the audience if need be without fear. It's one of the places where I get to exhibit high self esteem.
People are of different mindset, what appeals to Mr A, might not appeal to Mr B. Either of them can be right and either of them can be wrong. I don't really see anything wrong with letting anyone have access to my social handles.
The way one uses his or her social handle is what will make him/her scared to allow people who know them to have access to their accounts.
A lot of people live wrongly on those apps, some fake their lives, some live waywardly forgetting that the only privacy one can have on social media are your passwords. Everything else we do is transparent, anyone can see it unless we modify the settings or block them.
Sometimes I ask the question of why people live what they can't afford physically on social media. But I don't usually get the answer. No wonder they are scared when people who they have been masquerading themselves to find their ways to be friends with them on those Apps.
Social media is a free world but the aim is for us to enjoy our lives, get to socialize with people, and become better not to turn us into fake creatures.
Today, if it becomes mandatory for us to submit our social media handles as one of the requirements to get a job, I won't have any problem with it.
I don't have any other life aside from the one I am living, what I display physically is what I also display on social media.
But that is for me. I can't talk for others, I believe that everyone has the right to decide what they want and privacy is something that should be respected.
Not everyone wants to be monitored on social media, some people despise it and they are not wrong for that. It's their life, no one should temper with what they want to keep secret.
With this in the picture, considering the entire public and not myself alone, I feel, it won't be fair for any organization to ask their employees to submit their social media handles as part of the job requirements.
What are they looking for? What more do they want to see other than what they are seeing physically from the person? That's a lack of trust and it's not a good attribute.
I know it has its advantages too on the side of the employer but it will encroach on the rights of the workers and that won't be nice.
Imagine your boss always going through your posts and your activities on social media. It will make you uncomfortable even if you are not doing anything bad on the app.
Things like that can make social media boring eventually as people will begin to post with caution and address certain things with fear instead of boldness as it is supposed to be. Many people will leave social media if laws like that are enacted.