Face book open profiles to public
“Popular social networking site Facebook has added a public-facing search function in a move which is likely to anger privacy advocates.”(Facebook opens profiles to public, 2007). Facebook, one of the most used social networking website will give the option to allow any one who isn’t even registered to search for any picture’s and information of user’s in the Facebook website, even though they are private information. So if you have private pictures and information on the Facebook website don’t be amazed if practically anyone in the internet could be viewing them right now. Plus Facebook is a way for students and university candidates to interact with their studies by posting pictures and information for experiments or studies that they have conducted in other countries. Although Facebook will also give the option for any registered user to vary their privacy settings, the closing window for this setting is in a month’s time.
The website is Facebook’s so they have every right to do what they want to do- even though it invades people’s privacy and is against people’s own will. “This transforms Facebook from being a social network to being a quasi-white page of the web,” (Om Malki, Technology writer, GigaOm blog).
If Facebook was to show their users private information on the website, then it could be interpreted in an eccentric approach. It could be interpret it as a place were people won’t have their privacy and my opinion is that it’s a place were other people would just enjoy viewing private pictures and information of other people because of their immaturity and the tendency to abuse people’s privacy. Then the next step will come along and people would enjoy viewing explicit images and sexually provoking posts.
1 comment:
You are using too many quotes and not enough paraphrasing. Put it in your own words.
This needs to be redone to make sense in the format I gave you. I can't tell what the issue is.
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