Sharing personal information online via social media is becoming more and more popular. This is evident since Facebook has reached five hundred million members. The growing popularity of social media raises many privacy concerns. In February 2012, the Federal Trade Commission recommended that companies adopt stricter restrictions on tracking individuals' online activities. The FTC also urged the cellphone industry to build more privacy safeguards into its products. The main question is whether the US government should regulate privacy on social networking sites to protect their members' information. In recent years, social media has played a vital role in society. It helped overthrow a government, revamp the way advertising targets consumers, and solve many social problems. Social media is a very broad term; a system of websites and applications used to communicate over the Internet. Social media includes social bookmarking, news, photo and video sharing, and networking. These websites and apps have one major thing in common: users can interact with each other...