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SOCIAL MEDIA & INTERNET: THE PRIVACY FLAW OF OUR TIME

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Excited as we might be about the many opportunities afforded us by the advent of the Internet and Cyberspace, including the Social Media Platforms, it comes with many ills. The Internet has so become relevant to today’s life that it is considered a unique  unequaled  tool in bettering the work life of man. But it has not been without serious concerns if we examine it closely. It’s easy to count the blessings of having this all-time life revolutionary tool, but the cost is adverse. For me, arguably, the chief of all these concerns is the privacy breach that it has introduce to our world. In as much as the internet and all these Social Media platforms serves us greatly, we have been lured into a trap we might not be able to get away from in the nearest future. The Internet is a global network connecting billions of computers in over 190 countries, which are linked to exchange data in different forms using the instrument of the web. As of August 12, 2016, according to Internet Live S