•   All personal information posted on the web can be searched and mind, so if you don’t want someone finding it, don’t post it.

• If this information is willingly being posted, then companies who's job it is to recieve and collect this data/information are only doing their job. It is These individuals/companies have to push away public concern to accomplish their jobs (Clemmitt, 2010, pg. 753).

•  If used properly, this information can help individuals find things that interest them such as jobs, marketing opportunities, or social things.

• "All personal information published on the web by users can be searched and mined. Using the web and publishing information online carries the undeniable risk that once something is published on the Web, it will always be available for a  business intelligence tool or a data mining application somewhere in cyber space" (Al-saggaf & Islam, 2015, pg.946).

• "On the personal level, social networks create new opportunities to develop friendships, share ideas, and conduct busines" (Fire, Puzis, 2016, pg. 546).

• "Data mining techniques help users in various activities such as classification, clustering, association rule mining, and summarisation of data, making it possible to describe trends within the data, extract meaningful information, and predict the value of future data" (Al-saggaf & Islam, 2015, pg.946).

Work cited

Al-saggaf, Y., & Islam, M. Z. (2015). Data mining and privacy of social network sites' users: Implications of the data mining problem. Science and Engineering Ethics, 21(4), 941- 966. Retrieved from proquest.

Clemmitt, M. (2010, September 17). Social networking. CQ Researcher, 20, 749-772. Retrieved from cq researcher.

Fire, M., & Puzis, R. (2016). Organization mining using online social networks. Networks and Spatial Economics, 16(2), 545-578. Retrieved from proquest.