The large and growing family of new media networks such as Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Linkedin or YouTube offers different settings related to privacy and confidentiality, even though most people are unaware of them.
Contrary to what we may believe, Facebook is not the networks the least safe. Its main disadvantage is to store data (including pictures) after 30 minutes of life on an account and store them forever even after deleting an account. Thus Facebook is very used by hackers but if people use it properly, nothing really dangerous can happen. The platforms which are more likely to be unsafe are e-commerce websites or any application requirement credit card data.
More recently with the creation of Snapchat and its 10-second temporary posts became popular because users feel like privacy is more valid on this platform.
New media can be dangerous, but the way people expose way too much their life on those platforms is as well.
An increasing number of people shows all their life on social media and by “all their life” I mean from their morning coffee order at Starbucks to a selfie at the office or other little things that nobody really cares about.
People feel like they have to post pictures/videos to exist and it can be very annoying. They feel like it they didn’t post about something, it did not happen. To me, this is also a loss of privacy that people are not necessarily aware of, but this is a willing loss of privacy.
New Media & Business Class Project By Mélissa Chareyron 
I agree! I feel like people allow the loss of privacy by constantly posting every thing they eat or every step they take through out the day and it can be really annoying for people who don’t care (which is probably the majority) it’s an interesting concept for people to complain about the loss of privacy on the internet but then post tons of pictures on a regular day basis. It’s also interesting to me that we complain about how unimportant those pictures are and that we don’t care to see them but still all connect on the internet and “like” each other’s posts.
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Yeah! Snapchat is so crazy! Thats how Kylie Jenner became stalked so many times and how the PAP knew where she was always! WOWZA!
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