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2021
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
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, Assignment | Ethical Issues Related to Social Media Apps
1.1 Detailed Specification
Human nature by default has been programmed to be socially active to a certain extent.
Some are more active than others.
However, people have always been looking for ways to connect and network with each other.
And, in this age of digitization, people have found ways to be socially active on the internet,
which is possible with the advent of the numerous social networking platforms and apps.
Social media sites have also grown in numbers by leaps and bounds. There are approximately
3.78 billion social media users.
By keeping in mind the above facts, and present state of popular social media networking
sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., now you are designing a new social media site identical
to Facebook, in this scenario, as a software engineer, what would be the response to the
following questions.
a) Did you identify any ethical issue in this project with respect to general public/end-
users?
b) Provide recommendations to reduce ethical issues found in (a).
c) As a business point of view how you apply trade secret in your website project.
2021
PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES IN
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
ASSIGNMENT#:
SUBMITTED TO:
PREPARED BY:
REG:
FALL 2021
, Assignment | Ethical Issues Related to Social Media Apps
1.1 Detailed Specification
Human nature by default has been programmed to be socially active to a certain extent.
Some are more active than others.
However, people have always been looking for ways to connect and network with each other.
And, in this age of digitization, people have found ways to be socially active on the internet,
which is possible with the advent of the numerous social networking platforms and apps.
Social media sites have also grown in numbers by leaps and bounds. There are approximately
3.78 billion social media users.
By keeping in mind the above facts, and present state of popular social media networking
sites such as Facebook, Twitter, etc., now you are designing a new social media site identical
to Facebook, in this scenario, as a software engineer, what would be the response to the
following questions.
a) Did you identify any ethical issue in this project with respect to general public/end-
users?
b) Provide recommendations to reduce ethical issues found in (a).
c) As a business point of view how you apply trade secret in your website project.
