The author seems to believe that creating lists of friends will be the newest of privacy features for Facebook users. She explains that the new test feature has the lists called 'smart lists;' each list is supposed have customizable privacy settings, which would be useful to say the least. I hope the test feature is utilized so those who wish to increase their online privacy will be able to do so.
The author begins her article questioning why people complain about online privacy, but don't actually use friends lists to sort who sees what. I say, if one is truly worried about their privacy online, then get offline. Don't have a Facebook, or at least keep all your personal information offline. If Facebook wants to continue selling our information, they will; if they don't want to sell our personal information, someone will still easily be able to get it off servers and steal it for their own using. I don't trust so-called privacy settings, but then again, if I was worried about keeping my things private, I wouldn't post them online for others to read.
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Here's the link to the article should you so desire checking it out yourself:
http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-really-wants-you-to-create-friend-lists-2011-09
I agree if a person does not want other people to invade their privacy they should get offline. I don't trust privacy settings either because if someone wants to get your information if they try hard enough I'm sure they will get it. I think personally people need to stop share so many details about themselves online. Especially if your worried about someone possible reading it that you didn't want reading it. Its not safe and can lead to several uncomfortable circumstances. I remember when someone had created me a fake Facebook and I was thinking wow its that easy to pretend to be another person how sad is that.
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a frustrating situation, someone created a fake facebook for you?! A bit funny, but mostly that would just make me uncomfortable.
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