People who are breaking up with 'SNS'

'SNS' violates people's privacy, and they feel tired of managing 'SNS.'

People are under a lot of stress from Social Networking Service (SNS). Because of the system which automatically open their private life on cyberspace, and the tiredness from managing their own places. According to a research, conducted by ‘Research Institute of University Tomorrow,’ of the 835 people, 16% said they have thought about quitting SNS often, and 52% have thought about it once or twice. One of the main reasons was exposure of their private life.

Statistics about SNS

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In the case of ‘Facebook,’ people enjoyed it while sharing their usual life stories with closed friends. However, as they started to make friends with unexpected people like their supervisor, they stop sharing their life anymore.

Most of Koreans have a unique rivalry that ‘If other people do, then I do, too.’ It also plays a role to make people get tired. Once they start ‘Facebook’ or play ‘Anipang,’ they just keep focusing on them in order to increase a number of friends or make score at least as same as other people do, because they want to show their strong influence to people on SNS.

Anipang Heart Messages

Especially ‘Anipang’ which became the most famous mobile game in Korea by recording over 20 million downloading, harasses people by sending messages anytime even at night to get some game items: hearts, due to its connection with ‘Kakao talk,’ the most popular messenger application. In another survey of nearly 3000 of ‘Anipang’ users by ‘Do it Survey,’ about 40% of them said they get a stress because of ‘the heart message.’ For these reasons, many people want to know how to block the heart message.

A professor of Information Sociology said we cannot live without SNS which has unlimited expanded network in the future, so he advised that people need to make their own securing system for privacy and try to block the unwanted messages aggressively.

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 http://www.segye.com/Articles/NEWS/SOCIETY/Article.asp?aid=20121019023488&subctg1=&subctg2=&OutUrl=naver

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1. Image 1: From the original article, edited by DaEun Lee
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