Internet
has been popularly used in 1990s. Since then, the user of internet has been growing
bigger and bigger year to year. Now, internet can be accessed everywhere and it
is no longer a “new” thing for people living in the isolated are such a village
for now the internet access has been applied there. The easiness become easier
as now we do not need a big and heavy computer anymore to access it. Just a
small thing called smartphone in your hand, now you can know everything
happened around the world through internet. Internet offers us a lot of
features to be accessed such as news, video, music, social media, and many
more. One of those features that has been mostly accessed now is social media.
Connecting to people through internet is now become a social trend. It seems
that at least one person has to have one social media account. Types of social
media itself now is vary from Twitter, Facebook, BlogSpot, Blackberry
Messenger, Path, Instagram and et cetera. Facebook, then, becomes one of the
most-used social media by internet user. At first, people use Facebook as a
media of communication to their friends but now, the purpose is extended. Now,
you can do more on Facebook. You can play games, you can send files and video,
or even you can do some business through it. Alas, behind those easiness that
is offered by Facebook to its users, there are some of issues on Facebook that
have a potential to endanger its user lives. Those dangers can attacks to its
user indiscriminately.
In
2012 in a home in British Columbia, it was found a dead body of a girl. That
dead body later is identified as Amanda Todd. A girls whose age is 15, then
become an international sensation. Why? It is not because her decision to
commit suicide but because her video that she made before she committed suicide.
Before she killed herself, she made a video of herself holding bunch of paper
that has been written. In those papers, she wrote the reason why she committed
suicide. Then,
it is know that she committed suicide because someone had posted her topless
photo in Facebook and tagged it to other Amanda’s friends in the Facebook.
Seeing those naked picture, then her friends at school kept away from her.
Amanda, the according to her video, felt the she didn’t have friend anymore.
Situation become worse, when some of friends in school turned to bully her.
Felling stressed and pressured, Amanda then decided to ends her life.
Then,
what is the relation between Amanda Todd’s suicide with Facebook? Something
that must be emphasized here that Amanda Todd lost her life because her privacy
life is “tampered” in Facebook. Privacy has been an issue on Facebook. Some
people claims that we cannot save our privacy safely on Facebook. Let’s take an
instance, one day your Facebook friend posts a photo of you that you are very
embarrassed with in Facebook. Then, your friend tagged your name in that photo
along with your other friends and your friend give a bad comment on that photo.
In that situation, you may be able to remove your tag on that photo, but how
about your other friends’ tags? Then, if you are lucky enough, you may be able
to complain to Facebook teams, which it will take a longtime to remove that
photo from Facebook. But, how if your friends have saved your photo. Remember,
once a photo goes viral in Internet, you cannot control it!
Amanda
Todd is not the only criminal case related to Facebook. In Indonesia, a teenage
girl whose age is 14 years was being kidnapped by someone she just met. The
girl knew the man from Facebook as the man sent her a friend request and she
accepted it. Then, the conversation happened between the girl and the man. They
finally decided to meet at a mall and as they met the man took the girl to a
house and he make the girl slept by giving her a sleep pill. The man then
rapped her before finally sold her to Batam as a prostitute.
As
we concern here, the problem happened in this case is because the girl accepted
the friend request from someone she didn’t know and it is being worsen as she
made a deeper conversation to him Sometimes young people are interested to
those who look attractive and fancy. It, then, is used as a way to trap teenager.
They made a Facebook account, then they put some of attractive profile picture
that it may be not their face. Then, they send a friend request to the victim.
Fortunately,
besides those terrible effects of using Facebook in our life, Facebook also
offers its easiness for its users in connecting to other people. Facebook can
facilitates people to reconnect with their old friends. Sometimes, users on
Facebook do not know whether their old friend have already had a Facebook
account or not but Facebook has a feature called “friend suggestion” that more
or less helps people to find their friend on Facebook.
Moreover,
Facebook also offers a free and unlimited message. On Facebook messenger, we
can send millions of messages which is free. We pay nothing for sending those
message except the internet data which is extremely cheaper than traditional
message service on internet. Also, it is not only a short message that Facebook
offers in its messenger, it enable us to send picture, voice note, and video
too.
Recently,
many people have used Facebook as a media of its business especially on selling
something. Now, on Facebook you can make your own group. The group can be managed for various purpose
and some people use it as a selling-something group. There are group on
Facebook which sells books, clothes, shoes, and many more. The owner of those
group then invites their friend to the group and the invited friends also
invite their friend and it continues in that way. As the member of the group
grows up, the possibility to sell the product is also growing.
According
to the explanation above, we can see that Facebook offers us some of benefit
and easiness that can help us in some aspect in our life like finding old
friend, sending cheap message, or doing business. In the other way, if it is
used recklessly, Facebook can be a tool that endanger our life and even can
kill us. Thus, using it as wise as possible is the best way to do. Not exposing
our privacy life too much Facebook and not adding or accepting a request from
unknown account can help us to avoid dangers.
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