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Arguments for my Position:

#1: Educating students on privacy and how to safely use social media, Schools should teachers their students on the professional uses of social media and all the benefits they can gain from that.

Fact:

"...Tertiary students, academic staff, and emerging professionals need to develop an awareness of how to harness the affordances of social media in ethical and socially responsible ways, proactively safeguarding against the very real dangers, and challenging outdated notions to fully understand the new opportunities, alongside the new risks and complexities"(Forbes 3).

#2:Privacy and security policies that individuals can trust will require the Government to vote on regulations that hold companies like Facebook and Google accountable for the date that they have of the individual that uses their platform.

Fact:

"Self-regulation by companies has not proven effective, and calls for more rigorous self-regulation are unlikely to improve the situation because real protections are expensive and not necessarily in the company's interest"(Kennerly 130).

#3: Most social media sites offer users a wide range of privacy control options and while some companies include a variety of options that the user can control what can be seen by the public, many users still don't have enough safeguarding of their online privacy behaviors known as “privacy paradox”.

Fact:

"....Regulatory focus also affects privacy decisions, such that users with a strong promotion focus select options favoring a higher social networking utility, perceiving lesser cognitive efforts and more confidence in decisions"(Cho et al 1).
"...users regulate their disclosure in accordance with their privacy concerns in a similar way, regardless of whether they share content using their private or public account."(Gruzd and Hernández-García 428).

Sources:

     Cho, Hichang, et al. “Of Promoting Networking and Protecting Privacy: Effects of Defaults and Regulatory Focus on Social Media Users’ Preference Settings.” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 101, 2019, pp.                                                 1–13.,doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.07.001.

     Forbes, Dianne. “Professional Online Presence and Learning Networks: Educating for Ethical Use of Social Media.” International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, vol. 18, no. 7, Nov. 2017,pp.                                           175–190. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ1163210&site=ehost-live&scope=site.

Gruzd, Anatoliy, and Ángel Hernández-García. “Privacy Concerns and Self-Disclosure in Private and Public Uses of Social Media.” Cyberpsychology, Behavior And Social Networking, vol. 21, no. 7, July 2018, pp.418–428. EBSCOhost,doi:10.1089/cyber.2017.0709.

Kennerly, Ellen. "Privacy and the Internet." CQ Researcher, 9 Feb. 2018, pp. 121-144, library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre2018020900.