Social Networking

National Tarbiyyati Day - Lajna Imaillah Ireland 2013

Social Networking

There are many

internet dangers

but let ’s focus on just one of the most popular category of web sites

(Social Networking)

e.g. Facebook, myspace, bebo, twitter

Social Networking is web-based service, which allows interacting and Building

social relations

among people

around the world.

Social Networking Commercial + NON-Commercial Social Networking

Video/ Audio Sharing Commercial & Non Commercial Social Networking Platform

For Professionals / Artists / Photographers

Let ’s talk about

How does it work ?

Bulletin boards i.e. a Space you share: • Real name / Screen Name • Personal Profile  Date of Birth, hometown, schools, likes, and dislikes. • Post pictures, favorite songs, Videos, and things you like .

• Invite and Accept friendship requests to your site to post comments.

This information could then be available to everyone in the world to see!!

The most serious problem is about Privacy

. People share their

personal life

on Social-Networking Web sites.

It ’s easy to access not only to our personal life, but also to our information… like the: Name, Age, and Address can be used to

commit online crimes

easily.

Facebook

According to Joan Goodchild , senior Editor of Chief Security Officer Online:

“Your privacy may be at far greater risk of being violated than you know when you log onto Facebook.

….most dangers of Facebook • Your information is being

shared with third parties.

• Privacy settings revert to

default after each redesign .

• Facebook ads may contain malware •

Your real friends

unknowingly make you vulnerable.

• Scammers are creating

fake profiles

Facebook ’s mission

is to get you to share as much information as it can so it can

share it with advertisers.

As it looks now,

the more info you share the more

they are going to with

Advertisers

and

make money

.

Facebook Redesigns

Every time Facebook redesigns the site, which happens at least a few times a year, it puts your privacy settings back to a default in which, All of your (personal) information is made public.

Facebook does not notify you the changes, and your privacy settings are set back to public default.

Is

Facebook or other social Networking sites

secure platform to

communicate

with your friends ?

No such Thing is Private

•The internet is like an elephant

– it never forgets

.

While spoken words leave Little trace and are quickly forgotten,

written words endure

in the online environment.

•Whatever you post,

tweet (on Twitter),

update (your profile), share, even if it ’s deleted immediately afterwards -- has the potential to be captured by someone, somewhere, without your knowledge.

•There is no such thing as in other sites.

“private”

in the world of social media because anything you put up c

an be grabbed copied

, saved on someone else ’s Computer and mirrored

Twitter

It ’s based on people following others and getting to read their “tweets”. This is one of the dangers of social networking sites because

many people want as many followers as possible

and they are not shy about what they say in their tweets.

A Little Bird told me-

Another truth about Twitter

Every time you use Twitter, the government

keeps a copy of your tweets

. Sounds crazy, but it ’s true.

Spammers

•

Social networking sites can make life easier for spammers and stalkers

•

Social networking sites are ideal havens for online criminal activities as they provide a combination of two key factors: a huge number of users and a high level of trust among these users. (Zdnet.com)

Very of us would provide our personal information, e.g

Date of Birth, Address, phone numbers, employee Name, school names etc

to someone we met in real life, but we ’re quite happy to give it to a

total stranger online.

Protect your personal data as if it were a matter of life and death.

What happens on the internet

stays on internet

and it ’s up to you to make sure what appears in connection

with your name

and not have the potential

image

does

to harm you now or in the future.

According to FBI:

“Once information is posted to a social networking site, it is no longer private. The more information you post, the more

vulnerable

you may become.

“Just visiting a website can expose your computer to malware even if you

do not download a file or program. Websites with information on popular celebrities are

hijacked by criminals

, or criminals may create such websites to lure victims to them ”.

a new study suggests

using

Facebook

may not be a great idea for those with

low self-esteem

.

Extremely dangerous for teenagers!!

With their brain still developing, it is very easy to take advantage of them by pretending to be someone else…(interested in him/her) and then the criminal reveals that it was a

hoax .

Many teens have fallen into deep depression or even lost their life , an enormous tragedy and one the biggest dangers of social Networking.

Cyber bullying is a serious problem.

Cyber bullying is a act to

harm other people

through Internet, cell phone or other social networking sites . Some people spread

lies, write bad comments

and often

post damaging information

on websites.

The statistics on cyber bullying and suicide are alarming:

Suicide is the

third leading cause of death among young people,

resulting in about

4,400 deaths per year,

according to the CDC.

For every suicide among young people, there are at least 100 suicide attempts

Facebook

is a silent

killer

“It's all about

social class

and

popularity,

… people use it to

complain, gossip, fight and pretty much anything that sends a negative message.

”

Other

Disadvantages…?

WASTE OF TIME

“We cannot waste time. We can only waste ourselves ”

.

(George M. Adams)

Islam Teachings ?

“Whenever two strangers of the opposite gender are alone with each other, Satan becomes the third one between them.

” (Al-Tirmidhi) ”

Ego

is the part of us that

loves power.

It is the part that loves to be seen, recognized, praised and adored.

Facebook provides a powerful platform for this

. by which every

word, picture, or thought

I have can be

seen, praised or “LIKED”

.

As a result, we begin to seek this.

Whenever we put a picture, we

wait for compliments

; With the number of

“Likes”

or comments, physical beauty becomes something that can now be quantified.

When we put a post, we wait for it to be “liked”. And we are ever conscience of – and even compete in-the number of “friends” we have.

More importantly, it creates

a false sense of self-importance

. Soon I become the focus, the one on display.

The message is:

I am so important. My life is so important.

Every move

I make

is so important. The result becomes an even stronger

me-focused

world, where I am at

the center.

The goal of this life is to realize the

Truth of Allah ’s greatness

. The goal is to take myself

out of center

and

put HIM (God) there instead.

Allah says in Quran: “Mutual rivalry in

seeking worldly

increase diverts you

from God ”.

(Sura al Takasar - Verse: 2)

Jazakumallah

May Allah reward you with good !

©

Copyrights R. Kiran Khan – Ireland