Facebook, which has recently surpassed AOL has one of the top websites, has made a few changes to its privacy policy that has many reeling in anger and outrage. The privacy policy has been amended to publicize people’s personal information, pictures, and friends. On top of this, Facebook is now urging people to share their information, so the website would now be more open. However, the information is also readily available on search engines and to people who they might not want that information to be viewed by.
The new options for the privacy policy basically says that people can either decide whether their information is visible to everyone or just friends of friends.
“I hate these new private settings on facebook,” said Kevin Kusky. “They are basically forcing us to share our information with people we might not want the information to be shared with. It’s either everyone or friends of friends, what kind of a choice is that?”
As more and more members choose to deactivate accounts or permanently delete them, Facebook’s plan to increase traffic is starting to look like an unlikeable one. Betraying members and fooling them into thinking that they were changing privacy terms when they were really out to increase production and growth isn’t going to help their image.
The success that Facebook has gained so far has been partly due to member’s feeling safe and comfortable to post information and personal photos of themselves and family members.
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