User:LeanneGagnon/Privacy concerns with social networking services
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[edit]Article body A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors such as individuals or organizations and the social interactions between actors. Privacy concerns with social networking services is a subset of data privacy, involving the right of mandating personal privacy concerning storing, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and displaying of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Social network security and privacy issues result from the large amounts of information these sites are constantly processing. Features that invite users to participate in are included but not limited to, messages, invitations, photos, open platform applications and other applications are often the venues for others to gain access to a user's private information. In addition, the technologies needed to deal with user's information may intrude their privacy.
[edit]Looking at ways to put into my own words. I think some of the sentences are long and I am going to shorten them.
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