Social media websites favored by experts are reminded to guard against privacy theft

Xinhua Beijing, April 27 (reporter Yang Jinxin) in the last year, social networks have been very popular. However, with the development of this new thing, some social networking sites began to use the information provided by registered users to steal user information for profit. In response, experts remind netizens that social networking sites should be screened and differentiated to prevent personal privacy and information disclosure and theft.

Social networking site, social network site (SNS), is the newest practice of "digital survival", known as "the greatest Internet application after the search engine". Social networking sites originated in the United States, such as Facebook and MySpace, which play an important role in American social life and form a unique social network culture. When Obama ran for President, social networking site Facebook took on important functions such as organizing and fundraising, with supporters interacting with other supporters to help Obama get more than 2 million dollars in online donations.

In China, social networking sites are also developing at an alarming rate. Take the domestic most famous white-collar social networking site for example (www. kaixin001. COM), set up from last March to now a short span of a year, the total number of users has more than 20 million people, web browsing has exceeded some large portal sites, with the university students of the network, Internet cafes and urban mobile crowd of 51 nets, the formation of domestic social networking site tripod pattern.

The rhythm of the modern society is obviously accelerated, the social, work, family pressure makes many people's social side become narrower, the communication time is also getting less and more, many people complain that the communication in the circle of friends is on the surface and formalized, the social networking site is devoted to solving this problem.

Chen Jinchao, Deputy chief engineer of the Ministry of Telecommunications Research Institute, said: "Now people are more stressful, need to be released, and the Internet should fully release each netizen as an individual degree of freedom, we need a happy Internet." Not with pressure, but can participate, share, happy to enjoy the Internet. ”

The main feature of social networking sites is through the Internet and the circle of friends more convenient and efficient contact and communication, in particular, some easy to use, dynamic and strong auxiliary tools to provide, more virtual and reality between the bridge. At the same time, social networking sites in favor of real-name system, mainly acquaintances friend interaction, mutual understanding and trust, so on the internet to speak things have a high moral bottom line, more authentic than other network relationships.

A recent joint study by IBM and MIT's Sloan School of Management has shown that regular use of social networking sites helps improve the performance of employees and teams by providing accurate and timely access to information from more channels and improving the ability to solve complex problems. In addition, social networking sites also have a strong emotional transfer function, through social networking sites, can relieve stress and make relationships easier.

The popularity of social networking sites and the huge potential, so that domestic social networking sites springing up, resulting in a mixed, infringing the user's privacy, the use of vulgar way to promote such undesirable phenomena also occur. Rising company recently released the "Internet Privacy and social networking site (SNS) Security Report (2009)", for the current very popular social networking site users issued a security warning. The report pointed out that netizens in the social networking site after registering personal data, it is very easy to encounter mobile phone number leakage, MSN and email account password stolen seven major security risks. The use of various ways to defraud netizens personal data for profit, has become an important source of profit for individual social networks.

Industry experts drew attention to netizens, when registering and choosing social networking sites, should be screened and differentiated to avoid personal privacy and information disclosure and theft.

Zhou, associate professor of journalism at Renmin University of China, said that the impetuous wind of our internet industry, some sites to enhance the click rate and increase the number of users, blindly copying and ignoring their own website features and content construction, and even use vulgar content to attract users, this approach not only to the vast number of netizens to the network And it is not conducive to the healthy development of the entire Internet industry.

Since this year, our country has repeatedly to the vulgar website to renovate, at the same time also will increase from the legal angle to the network copyright protection. Zhou believes that only if all social networking sites are constantly stepping up their self-discipline and putting the interests of the user first, can this be a long-term development to ensure that social networking sites continue to have a positive impact on social development.