Facebook and beyond

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Kimmo Huosionmaa

Social media advancing all the time. This is the truth and even the Facebook was the first, other would follow that channel, or how we will call the social media services. When we are talking about the way youngsters are not familiar with Facebook anymore, is that service would not give them any privacy to talk together. There could be the parents and their friends with secret profiles, to stalk those youngsters. And because the messages that are written in that service doesn't delete automatically, there would be problems with information security.


The reason why people afraid social media, is that is shows, what kind of person really is. If there would be some very intelligent person, who has many personal ideas, would that cause little bit surprising, that person ever writes a single world. When the person has many ideas and personal thoughts, that could be manifested by own writings and ideas also on the Internet.



When we are talking about Snapchat, this application gives little bit more privacy than the Facebook, what gives the writings on the wall to everybody. And when we are looking about Snapchat, that is the so-called stripped version of Facebook. This makes the stealing those messages more difficult because they will go to another person, not to some group.


But the primary reason for leaving the Facebook is that service has become boring. The original idea of this service was to make the channel, where people can publish anything, what they wanted, but then that area became the place for commercial marketing. And also many elder people began to use that media because this is the very good forum for meeting together. This is the very good thing, but this makes media so tolerated, that the use of this thing is not ”cool” anymore.


Other social media products have more quality to notice user's personal needs. And this is the thing, what makes them better for some things than Facebook. But as we might see, there are still users for that channel, and when we are talking about what kind of social media people uses, we must say that there would be the world, where people use many social media applications same time. People communicate with workplace by using Facebook, and with friends, they might use Instagram, and of course, Twitter is the very good choice for businessmen, who needs only links, and behind that are the reports, what those persons need.


When we are talking about the financial support for those social media applications, we must say that the financial marketing would use social media to make the profile of us. They would send targeting sales for the users, and also they can give to the government information, what kind of media is the example the good scientist or military personnel looks. This information might be used for military personnel recruiting process, or hunting the serial killers. If somebody looks the same movies and uses similar terms as the serial killer that would seem the little bit strange.


The specialists would create the profiles of the media-usage of good military man by using the information, what is collected from well known military men. Also, the prisoners can be used to collect the information of media-usage of criminals. And that data can be compiled with other people media-usage. This might give very good view to the person's mind. If somebody makes same things in social- or other media with the person who sits in the prison, this would mean that those two persons would make same things also in the real life. This would not make anybody guilty, but this will make the list of suspected criminals shorter. And it would help authorities targeting their actions to those persons.

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