Facebook is the top social media site today and they have over 425+ million users. Some people eve spend the whole day on Facebook. Recently, Facebook changed their privacy settings and made a lot of their users' personal info public by default; Facebook likes to call it "social". This prompted a lot of anti-Facebook groups to mushroom, calling for users to ban and boycott the social media site. They say that Facebook should not be sharing our private information without our permission. Altho...
Read more …Facebook is the top social media site today and they have over 425+ million users. Some people eve spend the whole day on Facebook. Recently, Facebook changed their privacy settings and made a lot of their users' personal info public by default; Facebook likes to call it "social". This prompted a lot of anti-Facebook groups to mushroom, calling for users to ban and boycott the social media site. They say that Facebook should not be sharing our private information without our permission. Although a Facebook privacy policy exec has apologized through a NY Times interview, users feel like FB has not done enough to secure their users' privacy. Skeptics say that they made user information public by default without telling their users intentionally so that more people would not bother to change them. Others say that Facebook is "merely holding the smoking gun" because the internet now is practically of sharing and ease of sharing.
