Thursday, November 18, 2010
Privacy
In class we read an article titled, "Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking". This article is about the complex privacy settings on Facebook. Recently Facebook has revised its privacy policy, which makes users have to opt out if they want to keep information private. I haven't done anything like this, but I heard it is very extensive and you have to click a bunch of things to get your privacy to where you want it to be. "Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be prepared to spend a lot of time pressing a lot of buttons", said the author Nick Bilton. I want to know why they made it so complicated to be private? Do they want to you to be exposed to the third party websites that they are now showing personal data to? Isn't it more dangerous to not be private? I know it is a social site, but you don't have to be social with the entire world. I know I just want to be social with the people I am friends with, not random people I have never met before. Or maybe it's a good thing they make it complicated, so people can opt out certain things and be very specific with to whom they want to be social with. I think there is pros and cons to either side. It could be good to be thorough, or it could be annoying and a waste of time. I guess I haven't really made up my mind yet what I think about it...
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My advertising self is raising my hands up in reverence for the immense amount of consumer research facebook could possible have to pass along to advertisers who in turn use to give us what we want. My facebook user self would rather my information not turn into a category that stereotypes me. Isn't that what facebook is all about--individuality and creating an identity? I guess in all communities, there needs to be structure and categorizing. Since Facebook has become such an important part of our daily lives, maybe advertising should be a common feature on the website.
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