Facebook, an online social networking community has indeed developed over the past few years. Designed for the likings of college students, Facebook has now opened itself up to any and everyone. The once private and restricted site has built itself up to be one of the nine top websites being browsed on the internet. The issue that my article focuses on is the idea that you’re information isn’t at all kept safe in the walls of Facebook. The article gives an example of how a few college students at Washington University was hosting a party, with underage drinking and due to the news of the party spreading through the wires connected from pc to pc, the campus offices were able to catch on and bust the party in action. The twist to the story is the same set of students, as a test decided to send out, through of course Facebook, another party referred as the beer party on campus. This was to prove their theory that their private information and conversations were being monitored by campus officials.
Facebook has other issues besides invasion of privacy; online predators are able to access personal information on the site of young adults and can result in “cyber stalking”. According to the article, it has raised much attention that Facebook, like many other social networking sites, has conflict with privacy. These sites display information that is filled out by a member in the process of joining the online community. Although it may seem that the information is kept safe and is only being viewed by close friends and family to the newcomer, the reality of it is that personal information about the individual has now been registered in the system for pretty much everyone to have access too. However, the many privacy issues have been brought to many users attention, the site still remains to be one of the top and hottest sites on the internet since MySpace and Friendster. Even so, there are other concerns for the parents of the young members of Facebook and the community as a whole. Facebook has taken away time youngsters used to use as “hang out” time. It has made face to face interaction almost extinct. Now that these online resources have taken over the internet with new and exiting ways to entertain you, who needs to meet up and see a movie? Who needs the telephone? When you have direct connection to many in a click of a mouse?
Facebook may have its many downfalls, but it is still one of the most popular sites out right now on the web. It is the web 2.0 version of MySpace. Instead of formulating your own applications like MySpace allows, Facebook has already made applications that you can add to your profile as a way of expressing yourself. The site allows for old friends and distant family to keep in touch and also allows for individuality. It is a site that brings people together through common interest and allows for social activity beyond meeting up for brunch. These sites have changed the face of the new generations. We are the technology age.
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Facebook is a more stalker version of myspace. If you were scared of putting up your personal info on myspace don't even sign up for a Facebook. They make you fill out super personal information that can be shared with anyone once they are in the databases. Instead of being started for advertising reasons Facebook has links to the C.I.A. This may mean that Facebook is asking you all for all this information and letting you post up albums with tags to stalk you themselves. Facebook uses the information you post up about yourself to tally what young people are doing. To me this websites motives are scarier than myspace. Trying to sell me products is excusable, but selling my information to the C.I.A is not. :(
WE log into sites like Facebook all the time and never second guess any of the information we give out. I know I never thought about who could possibly get my information on Facebook but then again why would i care. There's nobody that im hiding from and if someone truely wanted to they could get it. We all like to think that we live private lives yet we really don't. Through the internet and companies selling customers information to one another our information is out there. Wht blame Facebook for privacy issues when we live lives that our information is exposed throughout the web.
People make a big deal about the privacy issue on facebook. However, I don't believe it's as scary as people make it seem. For one thing, if someone wants to access your personal information such as address and phone number, it can be done through the white pages or even something easier than that since now we have this technology at our fingertips. In addition, I think that facebook is safe if the proper precautions are taken, such as not writing your personal information on your profile, and only making it accessible to your "friends." In order to be safe, people also shouldn't accept another as their friend if they don't know the person.
I do not have a FaceBook; my opinions on it don’t have much weight. Still, I imagine FaceBook is a wonderful was to waste a beautiful day. Like many online communities, hours can be spent browsing a web of profiles and viewing photos. For example, regarding the online community YouTube, I have spent hours watching online videos as opposed to precious time meant to be spent studying. I have never even visited the FaceBook website prior to the class discussion; nevertheless, my assumptions are that it’s similar.
I don’t have FaceBook, but from what I learned about it seems safe enough if a person is very careful not to let anyone you don’t know on as your friend, moreover people should not put any personal information. Due to all the news articles on safety it makes me rethink joining any online community, fear of stalkers and other creeps out there that may want to do harm. Yet it seems that FaceBook has a variety of extra stuff that make it better, and more fun to use than MySpace is.
when comparing facebook with myspace.. think I'd perfer facebook. Facebook is much more detailed..where as myspace is much more basic. There is so much more to on facebook, for example; play games, draw a picture on eachothers walls, tag eachothers pictures, upload to as many pictures you want, throw animals or foods at eachother, super poke them, etc. Facebook is getting more and more popular. Before, no one i knew had a facebook, they had myspace. But now, no one has a myspace, they have facebook. I also think the facebook brings people together better then myspace does.
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