Social and smaller networks, a binomial in group of forty
The excessive accessibility to the personal data of the users is one of the majors risks of these services
The social networks have undergone a vertiginous growth anywhere in the world. In 2007, they received 500 million visits of people who wish to share information or, simply, to occur to know. This unstoppable phenomenon constitutes, without a doubt, an effective tool of communication, but is not free of controversy with respect to the intrusion in the private life.
A study of the INTECO and the Spanish Agency of Protection of Data emphasizes the danger for the privacy that can cause the use of these platforms, when stating that the accessibility to the profile of the majority of the users is total, reason why their references can get to circulate almost around the Network without control.
One of the moments critics in the matter of security is when the registry is realized, since normally the highest degree of publicity with respect to the personal characteristics is activated by defect. Also risk exists when one wants to leave the service for always, since it leaves from his data can follow published in the profiles of others.
The situation is thornier because the social networks find in the young people to his more fervent followers, seven of each ten clients in Spain, in a country that counts with eight million consumers, as it both demonstrates to the work of organisms public.