As much as we like to believe that Facebook is private, it isn't. Through the years, Facebook has subtly changed their Terms of Service along with various other changes that make it difficult, if not impossible to hide various indicators such as location, photos, and friends from other users. Facebook itself has been involved in such drama before, on the issue of who owns the content that is put on on Facebook by its users. The current Facebook now allows for 'linking' from other websites, such as Pandora, Tumblr, and Twitter. How can this integration of outside sites infringe on a person's privacy? The author of the article brings up a good point - with the plethora of 'friends' that a person has on Facebook, do you really want someone you briefly met reading your blog posts. Given, these blog posts and twits may be public and accessible to anyone, but the fact that it can be posted onto Facebook allows for easier access to your 'friends'.
The fact that Facebook has become, for lack of better words, 'sketchy', about how it treats it users, you begin to wonder whether Facebook has become far too commercialized. You wonder if Facebook actually cares about what its users think. In a conversation I had today with a classmate, it takes at least 5+ clicks through Facebook's help page to truly delete a page. Even then though, your information is stored in Facebook. Why is it so difficult to delete a profile? Although there's the deactivate option, all your information is still stored and can be recovered with a click of a button. There's no middle ground. And that's what's scary.
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14985800
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