Eventhough new media has made our lives immesely easy, it has its negative sides too. Privacy and confidentiality is one of the issues that cannot be overlooked. So much information is shared on the internet that anyone can steal each other's information easily. There is a danger of identity theft and increase in the crime with the increase in the use of new media.
For example, with the pictures that you post on these site anyone can steal and attempt that increases the danger of identity theft. Moreover, cyberbullying is another boggest issue amongst teenagers these days. Some teenagers do not know their limits of posting comments on their friends pictures or on their wall. Theier one nasty comment can offend immensely to the person he/she comments on. This issue can be so serious that it the person who is being bullied can even be compelled to take their own lives. When people are posting these comments, a lot of them do not realize that they are not just interacting with the computer infact anything they write is affected to another human being and the computer is just a medium that helps them communicate with each other. I recently watched a movie, Cyberbully, and i thought that it was totally educational and also epitomizes my point here.
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