It is undeniable that people now is more confident to share their personal information such as telephone number, address, email account, and so on on social media platform or online banking. Although, being active and signing up for these websites have some positive aspects, I believe these actions still cause some problems for users.
On the one hand, using personal account to log in these particular platforms help up gain access to better amount of information and advanced options. Plus, with an account, you could store your data better without losing information or projects you made on social media. For instance, most people use Canva to create slides for presentation requiring them to have an account to download templates and automatically save their work while creating their project. Therefore, the next time the log in, everything remains unchanged to continue. When it comes to your favorite platforms, getting notifications throught your email accounts will be helpful to keep yourself up-to-date to their website’s offers.
Recently, there are many forums and communities such as Quora, Reddit, Twitter or Instagram requires users to creat their own account to connect with friends and join in different forums with different topic. These forums will help them share opinions and get advice from others people or basically just for entertainment.
On the other hand, signing up in unqualified or illegal websites will be dangerous. The possibilty of losing your personal information to hackers will increase. Not to mention, your information could be sell for advertising, such as offering courses through phone calling, borrowing money, and so on. Furthermore, bad people could use your information to fraud other users, upload your sensitive images on illegal website to earn money or taking money from your beloved by texting. In case you only log in legal platform but lack of security like online banking, you could lose all of your money if someone knows your passwords. Finally, advertising through emails can also be annoying, especially with scams.
In conclusion, although adapting and updating ourselves to new technologies and social media platforms could be more convenient and saving time, we should always be caustios about threats hidden under those websites.