Facebook Addresses Openness, Privacy Ahead of Potential Competitors
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Mai Cutler, K. “ Facebook Addresses Openness, Privacy Ahead of Potential Competitors, Inside Facebook, 6 Oct. 2010, http://www.insidefacebook.com/2010/10/06/facebook-groups-privacy-openness/ (accessed 6 Oct, 2010)
Facebook is the most discussed topic nowadays around the world; its privacy issue is one of our most concern. The social networking site is significant to our unit as well, as it is highly related to our life both online and offline. This article suggested that Facebook is doing something regarding to its privacy issue, by letting users download all their information like photos and wall posts in their setting, and retooling friend lists and groups to make them simpler, Facebook is saying that they addresses Openness with privacy.
New technology doesn’t change how our brains work. Social networks are not new. For hundreds of years, people gather in different groups and communities, sharing information and rumors. The problem is that the social networks we’ re creating online don’t match the social networks we already have offline. This creates many problems. Facebook itself is not the problem here, the problem here is that there are different parts of one’s life that would never have been exposed to each other offline were linked online. For instances, real world social networks often breaks down into independent groups of work, college, family and close friends, and those groups might never be exposed to each other without Facebook, they will never come across to each other.
This article indicated that Facebook does really work to protect its users privacy. But from my point of view, by letting users download all their information, it seems that Facebook is saying “Not only we can take your information, now you can download it too”, a thought came into my mind: aren’t’ those information ours? Why Facebook users have to download their own information? I mean those information are ours, but we still have to download, does this really mean privacy control?
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