Privacy

If there is one major negative that came about as a result of new media, it is the utter lack of privacy and security for people who use social media. With one Google search of someone's name, you can easily find their Facebook, Twitter and Linkedin accounts and people can easily go through these accounts to find information about their private life. Young people are not usually thinking about the long-term implications of posting something inappropriate on a social media platform, and it can easily come back to haunt you in the future. This is the case in the article "Attack Ad Marks New Era For Millennials Running For Office" by Jessica Taylor. Jon Ossoff is a 30 year old Democrat running in a special election in Georgia, but his campaign is derailed because unflattering footages from college have been discovered. It is too easy for strangers on the Internet to have access to your information and your embarrassing past with the rise of new media, and people must be aware of long-term implications that any post can have.