Parents should be knowing the signs that their kid is getting cyberbullied via snapchat or social media. Talk to your kids. Send them to therapy. If I was in therapy then I would have turned out a heck of alot better!. Parents just know the sign. Monitor kids' social media and if they fight you on it remind them who pays the phone. If you are an adult having these problems delete the app. You'll be okay. There is so much more to this world than your phone and social media. Snapchat is NOT healthy to anyone.

Compared to other job sites like Meetup and AngelList, LinkedIn is the most professional and most popular site out of them all. Meetup is far too casual while AngelList has a very low user activity rate. This makes LinkedIn almost mandatory when it comes to job seeking online. One problem with LinkedIn is the amount of private information that people put on their profile. To prevent your information from being exposed, you can control how much of your information shows for non-contacts by going to security settings. Preventing non-contacts from viewing your information may also reduce a person’s insecurity.

Personally, I’ve seen many how the guidelines of have changed for YouTube and saw it grow into a much-restricted platform which can be a positive and a negative. There are also many videos for every type of viewer to either educate or entertain. The whole platform is customized to show the types of videos that the view would like which is why I think it has a positive impact on people. I’ve seen the opposite with Instagram. People are constantly comparing their bodies or lifestyles to these famous social influencers, in results, it causes insecurities and sadness. 

Instagram has been in many scandals in which people’s information such as phone numbers, locations and names get accessed or become in danger of getting hacked. Millions of people are put in a vulnerable position when their private information can be accessed by anyone. A good way to stay safe to limit the amount of information that you put out on social media. Locations and phone numbers should not be available for strangers to see.  Social media has plenty of benefits, but it comes with many disadvantages that can hurt a person in the long run.

 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/09/12/new-instagram-hack-exclusive-facebook-confirms-user-accounts-and-phone-numbers-at-risk/#5badd5082200

https://www.inc.com/jason-aten/instagram-just-acknowledged-it-has-a-much-bigger-privacy-problem-than-we-thought.html

As far as security concerns go, in my experience as a daily user of Spotify, I have not experienced any security breaches or anything like that but when I researched security concerns within the platform I was surprised by how many problems a lot of other people have when using Spotify. There have been many cases of harassment on Spotify. Because the platform doesn’t allow blocking a single user, people are left vulnerable to people monitoring their listening and then using that information to intimidate them. The only solution to this problem would be to add a block feature so in the instance of harassment it would be easy to mitigate the problem by blocking the person harassing you.
https://www.campaigncreators.com/blog/spotify-the-social-network/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/modern-mentality/202004/can-spotifys-daily-wellness-boost-your-mental-health
https://choosetoencrypt.com/privacy/spotify-streaming-service-offers-little-privacy-protection/

The major issue with security in Instagram is that it lacks the type of security needed to protect users from hackers who could potentially steal their information. Any hackers could reset someone’s account and have access to any personal information they have put on their account. Most social media sites have a feature that prevents anyone but the owner from accessing the account, but Instagram does not. The owners of Instagram need to fix this bug in the app and that would eliminate the major security concern.

https://blog.pcc.com/social-media-self-esteem-and-teen-suicide

According to Ravi Chandra in his article, Is Facebook Destroying Society and Your Mental Health?, he lists several issues the Facebook creates surrounding mental well-being.  As users begin to post more, an addiction grows for comments and likes.  This addiction is similar to addictions in substance abuse and gambling.  There are cases of people dying after plummeting to their death to obtain a photo atop of a large structure.  Facebook has also bestowed envy amongst friends.  Instead of admiration or inspiration, people have grown to become jealous over their peer’s success on the website.  Studies have also shown that those who spend an excessive amount of time on websites, such as Facebook, feel dissatisfied.  Facebook is only one example of a social media sites that warrant these concerns to an individual’s well-being.  There are risks in nearly all social media websites that users should educate themselves with, before signing up.

Facebook already has counts of private information being breached.  Phone numbers have been sold to third party companies to promote advertising.  Facebook also was tied into the Cambridge Analytical scandal.  The Cambridge Analytical would harvest data from Facebook users through an app.  This data would then be used to create fraudulent political profiles that were used to influence the elections.  We can begin to avoid dangers like these and more, by selecting what we choose to share.  We should also look into every potential app that we may feel like downloading to gain information on the companies that we are dealing with.

Chandra, Ravi. “Is Facebook Destroying Society and Your Mental Health?” Psychology Today, Sussex Publishers, 29 Jan. 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-pacific-heart/201801/is-facebook-destroying-society-and-your-mental-health.

Heller, Michael. “A Recent History of Facebook Security and Privacy Issues.” SearchSecurity, TechTarget, 30 Apr. 2019, searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/252462588/A-recent-history-of-Facebook-security-and-privacy-issues.

       Instagram has been known to leave personal information exposed.  This includes phone numbers, names, and account numbers.  Due to the vulnerability of the security system, data can be leaked leaving users prone to attack by hackers.  A few ways to prevent such dangers is to make sure your account is on private.  Only allow people who you know and are comfortable with onto your profile.  Another thing you can do is block people from seeing your posts.  When blocking them, they won’t be notified so you wouldn’t need to worry about it.  Turn on two-factor authentication so that whenever an attempt to log into your account is made, you will receive a text message.  

 

·        “Are Instagram and Other Social Media Bad for Your Teen's Mental Health?” Abington, www.abingtonhealth.org/healthy-living/health-news/library/articles-related-to-general-health/are-instagram-and-other-social-media-bad-for-your-teens-mental-h/.

 

·        Doffman, Zak. “Instagram Confirms Security Issue Exposed User Accounts And Phone Numbers-Exclusive.” Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 12 Sept. 2019, www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/09/12/new-instagram-hack-exclusive-facebook-confirms-user-accounts-and-phone-numbers-at-risk/#df6085422004.

 

·        Gralla, Preston. “How to Protect Your Privacy and Stay Secure on Instagram.” The Verge, The Verge, 26 Mar. 2019, www.theverge.com/2019/3/26/18282196/how-to-protect-privacy-security-instagram.

 

 

They create this ideal life in a picture they choose to show, and it causes others to wish that they were living that life or have the body of their dreams that they see in an edited photo. Example, most girls on this platform get plastic surgery and Botox not only because they want to feel pretty but some are insecure with the way they look, and they think they have to get all these procedures done to fit in and feel accepted by society. This causes other young girls to want and get these procedures done because in this society that is considered the definition of beauty. Even with those who can’t afford it or constantly comparing themselves to others, that causes them to have low self-esteem and thoughts that they aren’t beautiful. This also goes for the guys too. I personally deal with this as of now, we all wish we could have what those “lucky” people have. But we all to understand that everything we see on social media is not exactly the way it is in real life. Every social media like Twitter, Snapchat and Facebook affects our mental health, they are all the same, but one is always worse than the other. 

There has been a security issue on Instagram where people’s real names, Instagram account numbers and handles and phone numbers were exposed. There isn’t a way for them to protect their information except by being careful what they enter. 

 
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