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Browsing Social Media The pervasive influence of social networks like Facebook and Instagram in our daily lives cannot be denied. With more than thirty million registered users in France alone, these platforms have experienced a meteoric rise in the world since the end of the 2000s. However, the initial vision of these networks as facilitators of social links and personal exchanges has given rise to serious controversies which have only intensified over time.
The evolution of social networks in everyday life: –
Having experienced a meteoric global rise since the end of the 2000s, the social networks Facebook and Instagram are now omnipresent in the daily life of the French since no less than thirty million of our fellow citizens are registered there!
However, even if the innovation is probably revolutionary, the use of such a site quickly gave rise to serious controversy, which only intensified over time. Indeed, originally conceived as a “facilitator” of social relations, intended to promote exchanges by sharing personal information, everything is thought out, in the presentation of the network, so that the user has the feeling of being at the within a private sphere, limited to a few relatives, friends and acquaintances, thus encouraging him to confide or express himself as a teenager would do in a diary.
As caricatural as the image may seem, it nevertheless reflects an undeniable reality: the majority of users will tell you that they are perfectly informed of the confidentiality, at least limited, of the information they reveal on Facebook, few, however, would say dare to affirm that they have the feeling of shouting to the crowd the statutes that they publish! Particularly revealing is the fact, in this regard, that Mark Zuckerberg’s firm has gradually replaced the designation of “profile” by that of “diary”, in the sense of “diary”, as evidenced by certain foreign translations.
Exploring Facebook’s Privacy Paradox:-
But then, in the midst of this confusion caused, how to consider Facebook, and more broadly all social networks? Do they constitute, from a legal point of view, a closed space in which any declaration could only have weak repercussions, like a drunken evening with friends, or on the contrary a similar dissemination tool? to the mass media?
Before providing a technical answer to such a question, it does not seem superfluous to recall that all the lawsuits which have involved the use of the social network in recent years have generally only concerned two categories of problems: on the one hand on the one hand, the pronouncement of dismissals and, on the other hand, the obtaining of damages and interests on the basis of presumptions of defamation or public insults .
