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Debate: Harmfulness of Facebook
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- | ''Click "edit" and write arguments here'' | + | *'''It is unethical for social network sites to use personal information to enable advertisers to better target you as a consumer.''' Personal information should not be used for commercial purposes. It is too invasive, and can cause emotional damage. For example, what if your profile indicates that your boy friend just broke up with you, for example. An ad agency is allowed to obtain this information and use it to send you an advertisement on break-ups. This could do emotional damage. |
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- | ''Click "edit" and write arguments here'' | + | *'''Social networking sites have agreements that explicitly say that information can be used commercially in any way.''' If an individual doesn't want their information to be used commercially, than they shouldn't enter into agreements with these social networking sites. Or, they should close their account. |
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+ | *'''More targeted advertising is of greater value to the consumer.''' Why should we complain that advertisers will have more information about us to advertise to us things that we are more interested in buying? Advertising is not evil. Ads inform the consumer of a product that they may judge to be of value in their lives and worth spending money on. No product is being forced on consumers by ads, but offered as something that the consumer might deem worthy to purchase. Therefore, it should be welcome that social networking sites offer advertising firms information that can bring products of greater potential value to a particular consumer's attention. | ||
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This House believes that Facebook does more harm than good |
Background and Context of Debate: |
Privacy: Does Facebook infringe upon privacy rights? | |
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Friendships: Does Facebook harm relationships? | |
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Information: Does Facebook help spread "undesirable" information? Does it matter? | |
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Crime: Does Facebook present a threat? | |
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Unique harms: Are there any harms unique to Facebook? | |
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Human factor: Is it Facebook, or its users doing harm? | |
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Commercial use of info: Is the commercial use of personal information unethical? | |
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