Marshall Online Privacy and Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck

By reading both articles i can now see and understand that privacy is very important. Facebook was made for college studies when it was first made, now everybody is on it, even high school students and adults. It was really made for keeping in touch with friends that you haven’t seen since high school, junior high, etc. But if you have your profile set to the public for everyone to see then you are in big trouble, i say this because anybody can get your information online that you post up, even your friends that you have, your phone number, email, photos, and more. A lot of us have to realize that even if we do have our profile’s set to private people can still get access to our information, just like Mr.Marshall had stated in his article about Online Privacy, he talked about about cookies and how people can save the link that you went to on the internet and some how get access to your information. It’s always good to clear your history browser on the internet whenever you are on a certain site and when you about to shut down your computer.

It’s good to know about these things for your own safety, because now even the police and the government can know what you are saying just by going on the internet and looking you up on Facebook,Twitter, MySpace, etc. They even have there own Facebook, Twitter and MySpace page. I ask myself all the time if we are safe on the internet no matter where we go on there online, even shopping online using our debit or credit card numbers. Hackers can even get into our information, so we have to be careful no matter what we do. Even Google is changing there privacy settings for people that have a G-Mail account. Facebook is a good site but now it is being commonly known all around the world and is making billions of dollars, it’s hard for people to feel safe online because no matter what you say or do or have privacy on your account. You are still noticeable on your friends page when you comment on there wall or is tagged in a photo with them.

We just have to play things safe when we are online now and use it wisely for our own benefits. I just pray that Facebook will update more on privacy settings to make people feel safe when they are communication online, and i hope that other websites will be more safer when shopping online using their information to purchase things.

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