[quote]More young people these days say they've had their Internet accounts hacked or spied on. Many also say they know who did it and don't seem too bothered.
An Associated Press-MTV poll finds 3 in 10 teens and young adults have had people log on to their Facebook, Twitter, MySpace or other Internet accounts and either impersonate or spy on them. That's nearly double the level seen in 2009.
The poll found solid majorities saying they knew who was behind it: 72 percent for spying, 65 percent for hacking. Richard Lindenfelzer, 20, says it happened to him, but it was more innocent and playful than anything else.
He has walked away and left his laptop logged into Facebook at times and a roommate has seized the opportunity to fiddle with Lindenfelzer's page, writing silly things about love interests or potty humor.
"It's meant to be funny," said Lindenfelzer, a junior at Ithaca College in New York. "It's supposed to be obvious that this is something I would never say."
The same thing happened to recent college graduate Emily Feldhake of Pickford, Mich.
The 22-year-old had used a friend's laptop and closed the browser but hadn't logged out. Her friend took some humorous jabs at her on her Facebook page. Not upset, she said: "I knew who it was. It was my friend and I was the one who stayed logged on."
But sometimes the hacking can be malicious.
Courtney Eisenbraun of Saint Francis, Minn., is among the 46 percent of young people left upset by a hacking experience.
The 15-year-old says she was at practice for her high school dance team when she got a text from her sister checking to see if the 10th-grader was on Facebook. The teen's status had been changed to say something inappropriate about girls in showers.
She says she doesn't share her password with friends but assumes it was someone in her grade because they knew who her friends were and also posted things on their Facebook pages, pretending to be her.
"I was really confused about how they got my password," she said. "I felt violated."
Eisenbraun changed her password right away, and changes it often now. She hasn't had another problem since.
In the AP-MTV poll, two-thirds of those who had been hacked said at some point they've changed their email, instant messaging or social networking password in response to digital abuse. Forty-six percent have altered their email address, screen name or phone number, and 25 percent have deleted a social networking profile.
Josie Burris, 16, says she's shared her Facebook password with her best friend as well as her boyfriend. Once, she spied on her boyfriend's page to peek at his private messages and see what he was up to. He's also spied on her private messages, she said.
"I don't care. I've done it to him. He's done it to me," said Burris, a junior in high school who lives in Ridgeland, S.C.
She says her parents are on Facebook, too, but she doesn't worry about them spying on her.
"I make sure I don't put anything bad on there," she said, but added: "Old people shouldn't have Facebook. I firmly believe in that."
Child safety advocates, though, say parents should be on Facebook. They don't suggest spying, but they do say parents need to know where their kids are going online and, most importantly, they need to talk with their children about being responsible online.
Marsali Hancock at the Internet Keep Safe Coalition says children who grow up thinking they're sending confidential messages are misled.
"It's never private," says Hancock, president of the coalition. "So the parents who actually check in, even just randomly every now and then, really help their child to recognize that everything can be viewed and tracked and stored and moved around."
Of the young people who said they had been hacked, the AP-MTV poll found that about 7 in 10 said they had considered that their words or pictures could be shared without permission, compared with just over half of those who had not been hacked.
The Associated Press-MTV poll on digital abuse was conducted online Aug. 18-31 and is based on 1,355 interviews (631 teens ages 14-17 and 724 young adults ages 18-24). It was part of an MTV campaign, "A Thin Line," aiming to stop the spread of digital abuse.
The survey was conducted by Knowledge Networks, which used traditional telephone and mail sampling methods to randomly recruit respondents. People selected who had no Internet access were given it for free. The margin of sampling error for the poll is plus or minus 3.8 percentage points.[/quote]
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"hacked"
Every time I fuck with my friends' facebooks they say they've been hacked. Stupid fucks.
Ey, guys I got hacked.
I left my computer unlocked in class while I went to training!
People these days need education on the internet. Also common sense.
One female classmate logged in to facebook on a public PC and didn't log out. The result was someone posting lots of troll faces everywhere.
[QUOTE=Killuah;32650191]"hacked"[/QUOTE]
Pretty much this. I hate that the definition of hack has changed.
Most teens don't know what being hacked / hacking is.
No, leaving your msn messenger open on a public computer isn't being hacked, it's you being a dumb shit as oh-too-often.
My friend keeps saying I hacked his facebook account even though I have said COUNTLESS times that he forgot to fucking log out from my computer.
And then I strangled him everytime he says that
fucking annoying dumbass
This just in: Teens are now more computer illiterate.
I'd pretend this was a big deal if it wasn't some bullshit teen MTV thing when it's obviously they've either been retarded enough to announce their password or was facebook raped because that's so hip and cool.
Most of the time, it's just them being too stupid to avoid even the simplest of phishing attempts.
I never in my whole life been hacked. I forgot to log out from then computer sometimes and people has wrote stuffs on it. But that is not hacked.
Don't know what more to say. I agree with every post in this thread.
i think what they mean by it is that stupid thing people do when they leave their password out in the open / are still logged into facebook or whatever and have some idiot post "LUL IM GHEY XD" and then have the idiot claim on the post that they "hacked" him.
Everytime somebody tricks out an electronic security feature it's hacking now? I mean, I don't even expect people to know the difference between hacking and cracking anymore, but damn...
"Oh no! How did anyone know my password was 'password'?! They even found out my old one was '12345'! What a cruel world in which the sword is so much mightier than the shield no matter how hard we try! :("
(Just because something has low security doesn't mean you can do with it what you want, but some people make it so easy they shouldn't be surprised)
My friends never knew what a hack was. For Myspace back in the days I would completely change my profile layout by coding it my self and they'd be like "What! How did you hack your profile like that!!".
Fucking retards.
[editline]6th October 2011[/editline]
Wait, an MTV poll?? No wonder they think they have been hacked, people who watch MTV are fucking idiots.
I blame youtube as well, there are shittons of "hack" videos on there.
"Hack a flashlight" and that shit, when all you do is [I]modifying[/I] something, stupid fucks these days.
More teens are fucking idiots.
There needs to be an obligatory "Common Internet Sense and Etiquette" class at schools, this is just embarrassing.
[QUOTE=DrMonumbo;32650200]Every time I fuck with my friends' facebooks they say they've been hacked. Stupid fucks.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Daniellynet;32650203]Ey, guys I got hacked.
I left my computer unlocked in class while I went to training![/QUOTE]
^ all this. It shames me that I'm saying "back in my day"; since I'm a teen, but back in my day if someone was "hacked" it was someone gaining benefit from someone elses' loss.
I don't get why I see people with hacks, viruses, adware, malware, spyware, etc.
I mean I never get them any more. Not since I learned about my security.
I think the world really needs educating on what hacking actually is.
[QUOTE=Jack Trades;32650627]There needs to be an obligatory "Common Internet Sense and Etiquette" class at schools, this is just embarrassing.[/QUOTE]
Yeah but knowing how [I]excellent[/I] schools are at computers a CISaE class would probably be something like "Don't go on message boards because they're mean" and "don't use other browsers because they're viruses"
"help i got hack by sum gay asshol who sed he wuld send me sum gaems on staem if i gav him my steam acant :("
I genuinely got hacked! recieved a text from facebook saying someone has tried to access my account with my password but they couldn't get in because of the 2 level security. And it turned out it was some one in america. also got my Gmail account hacked into, someone tried using my google checkouts account but it got blocked. Had to fax loads of paper work to google to prove it was me.
I've been double-hacked once, two people were on the keyboard on my facebook account!!!
[QUOTE=GeneralSergant;32650877]Yeah but knowing how [I]excellent[/I] schools are at computers a CISaE class would probably be something like "Don't go on message boards because they're mean" and "don't use other browsers because they're viruses"[/QUOTE]
Unless someone with more than half a brain would hire someone with appropriate knowledge but in most cases it would probably be like you described.
We live in a sad, sad world.
Gives hacking a bad name :(
Did they use some sort of trojan or virus or broke all your firewalls?
No. They just opened my laptop and started writting.
"Hacked"
Reminds me of how last week I played one typing game (where you try to be as accurate and fast as possible) and I got 180wpm with a 99% accuracy, [b]everyone[/b] from my class was just speechless, even the frigging teacher and SHE said "wow you must be some kind of hacker or something" :v:
it's funny how overused the term hacker is these days.
Only elite hackors can get in to someones FB page!!!
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