Facebook has become a privacy threat. I remember when I first heard about Facebook in 2004, at the time I wondered how different it would be from Hi5. Little did I know that soon Hi5 would become obsolete and Facebook would make it's founder one of the most powerful person in the world.
Facebook allows us to be narcissistic. We can all become famous if we posts the right things and all we need is a free Facebook account. In allowing us to do this, we've put so much of ourselves online for the public to see and analyse. Facebook is able to collect both implicit and explicit information about us and use it to target advertisements towards us, provide evidence in court, and help employers understand who the potential employees really are. Those things are important. Well, at least the last two. Not too long ago a maid was arrested because she borrowed or stole some of her employer's clothes and posted pictures of herself wearing them on Facebook. She didn't think of privatizing her photos so that her employer wouldn't see them or she could have just resisted the temptation to post them.
What Facebook has achieved is so great, and plays right into the hands of many agencies' desires, including , advertisement agencies, employers, crime fighters/agencies and hackers. Do we really want these groups to know what we do daily, what we eat, where, why, your family members, your innermost thoughts, etcetera, etcetera?
What happened to keeping a diary and telling ur friends about the things that interest and excite you?
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