Privacy

Privacy and confidentiality are often issues that come hand in hand with new media. New media allows information to freely move across the internet and its networks. This is available to all internet users and is accessible anywhere and anytime. This extremely important in today's society because new media technologies are used by many people for its efficiency and convenience. However, this also leads to a loss of privacy for its users. As much as we want information to be confidential, it is very hard to control the direction of it. For example, users post pictures on Facebook to share with their friends, but strangers may able to access these pictures. After all, this is the internet, everything is out in the open. 

However, most new media technologies do offer privacy settings to protect its user's confidentiality. We can customize our privacy settings so that we have control over who sees what and has access to what. With such privacy controls, sometimes it may be hard to keep track of making certain things private. This is when the loss of privacy really occurs. Privacy settings may be too complex, confusing and time consuming. Users are not always aware that their information is published to the public. 

Therefore, the ability for information to move across networks is both beneficial and harmful to its users.