Tag Archives: Online privacy

While reading the research article, Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck by Danah Boyd I was surprised to see how much of problem users had with the News Feed feature on Facebook. Although there are roughly 800 million active Facebook users, about 700,000 users joined a group to protest against the newly added feature which according to Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg was a feature to help keep tabs on their friends. Being that the information was already public information, I do not understand why the users had a problem with it. In no way it is invasion of privacy because it is only showing the information that the user shares. Yes, viewing the information was more obscure to users when Facebook was originally made however, like all networks companies pay to upgrade the sites and add new features. Many Facebook users have misused social networking sites to tell the world about their problems or for bullying purposes. Yes, you get those people who really read into everything on person does which creates problems.  I see it like this, if you are going to be ashamed if a certain someone is going to read your status or view a picture that they shouldn’t you shouldn’t post it.  If you don’t want people in your business, it shouldn’t be put on a SOCIAL NETWORKIG SITE! Now with the most recent updates I think that it’s a good idea that Facebook left if up to the users to choose whether they want certain information to be seen by their friends. One of the biggest problems I think is that people add other people just because you see you have friends in common etc. I have always said it the social networking is making people more anti-social. It makes me wonder what will  peoples social life look like in the next 20 years… will people be sitting at the same table texting each other while they are out….