FACEBOOK

Facebook; Privacy and Us:

     

     From its beginning in February 4, 2004 Facebook has been a great way to chat with friends, play games, tell people what things you’re up to, but along with the fun comes some very serious privacy concerns……

Facebook and other social networks have had many predator and pedophile problems. I know lots of people think that they’re ok by putting just friends of friends as a setting (for people to see your account). But that isn't good enough. Who knows, maybe one of your friends friend is actually a 30 yr old man faking to be a 12 year old girl. 3977 people have been caught as sex offenders in 1 town only which is really scary (at least to me).

But not only are there predators to be scared of, but government and corporate interests as well. They take in huge amounts of personal information then use it to profile you and sometimes market things to you, affecting the kind of ads you see while you’re online, for example.  They often sell your info to other companies who do this for them.  Even Mark Zuckerberg (one of the founders of Facebook) called his users “dumb ‘F-ers” for trusting them with all their private info.

      I think these are the main reasons why so many people are scared of Facebook; why they don’t get accounts.  I know lots of people who try their best to protect their privacy while online.  Personally, I try to take steps for none of these things to be possible.  I use software (so no one can hack my computer), I have the setting on friends only, I make sure I know the people personally (who im friends with on Facebook), and I don’t give out every single piece of info about me.  If you have a Facebook, I highly suggest you do the same as well…………