I found an article in class today and it made me question myself to whether privacy on Facebook really does exist. The article which was from May 2010 stated that:
"The social network has come under fire for a series of recent changes to its policies that have limited what users can keep private, as well as embarrassing technical glitches that exposed personal data."With Facebook being such a most trusted and popular social networking site you have to wonder how these technical glitches happened.
I believe online privacy is gradually starting to disappear. There may be some sort of privacy but with the amount of email spamming, computer viruses, hackers and identity theft happening it makes it harder to keep details and information about ourselves private. On the other hand, it is down to us to be careful in what information we share online. I think the problem with Facebook is that people get too comfortable and tend to post anything and everything. I say never share too much as you do not know who could be reading it. Whoever thought that sharing information could get you into trouble. Here's another article i found:
This article just goes to show that your audience isn't as small as you think, anyone could be reading what we are saying and unfortunately it could lead to consequences like the the one above. But should teachers really be able to have access to your Facebook profile? This is just one of many disadvantages of surveillance, privacy and security online. Data can be recorded, people are able to hack into your information and police and government are able to track you down.
So when you use the Internet, THINK! We have to accept the fact that anything we post online has a chance of becoming public. My conclusion: Online privacy does not exist.
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