http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/social.media/05/26/facebook.privacy/index.html?hpt=C1
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Facebook, facing criticism, ramps up privacy options
I for one believe that online social networks are dangerous. Sites like facebook, twitter, hi5, etc.. put your life out there for everyone to see and sometimes you don't even know how or might not even be able to control what can be seen by everyone online. I've had problems in the past where someone posts something about my personal life on facebook and people like my parents or co-workers end up finding out about it. Luckily no major problem has resulted from this, but the possibility of severe problems resulting from poor control over what you put out there exists. Hopefully efforts like the one mentioned on the following link will help solve this issue. Do you believe facebook is on the right path to solve this problem??
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I am glad that facebook is taking steps to solve this problems for users. Facebook is a great network but can be very dangerous also. It is one of the big sources for criminals to get their information of victims. In some latin american countries kidnappers use Facebook to get all the information they need about someone they are after. We have to be very careful with everything we put in our profiles!
ReplyDeleteYou can always keep your information to a minimum. I am always shocked to see people posting their birthdays and complete biographies on Facebook. And also, when somebody has 600 friends, my intuition tells me that not all of them are the closest ones.
ReplyDeleteIt's great that Facebook is trying to solve the privacy issues.
I couldn't agree with you more. Personally, I'm not the type of person who tweets everything they do for the entire world to know what i'm doing, where i'm going, and who i'll be with. Honestly, I think its dangerous and its definately too much work.
ReplyDeleteThis was actually the topic I chose as well for this weeks blog. I read an article this week about how facebook's CEO started back tracking after the world found out that he was forwarding their member's personal information to other companies. Particularly, including Google's DoubleClick and Yahoo!'s own Right Media without user's consent.
These companies are making tons of money by selling your personal info to other companies. They are basically using you as a commodity. I don't know about you, but knowing that information, I sure don't want to be facebook's bargaining chip and sacrifice my personal information for their profit.