The rising popularity of the Internet has also brought about effects on social networking sites such as FaceBook. This leads to the issue of what is private and what is public in the realm of FaceBook. Anyone and everyone with a profile on either FaceBook is technically celebrities. The amount of information exposure, if not monitored well, can lead to dangerous consequences.
In addition, sites like FaceBook tells you whenever a friend adds another friend, or joins a new group, or posts a link, or adds a new application, or updates their profile, or changes their status, or just about anything else they do on FaceBook (Holter 2007). This article was written by Chris Vallance for BBC News on 18 January 2008 which highlights the issue of FaceBook invading the privacy of individuals.
This article is on FaceBook being questioned over its privacy policies by the Information Commissioner’s Office. FaceBook users have lodged complains that their personal information remains on the site even after the account is deactivated. FaceBook however, maintains that they comply with all data protection legislation and denies the claims made by the public (Vallance 2008).
The issue of FaceBook privacy is further cemented by a statement from Walsh (2006) “….Web Design provides factual information in words, graphics and images. Its purpose is to give the reader various types of information on a certain subject…”. With this, it can be seen that FaceBook is only doing its duty in providing information of its members.
Ultimately, what is private and public is for the members to choose. FaceBook as a Web site is only functioning to do its duty as a social networking site.
References
Walsh, M 2006, The textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp. 24-37
Holter, E 2007, To Facebook or Not to Facebook, viewed 9 November 2008, http://www.newfangled.com/benefits_of_facebook
Vallance, C 2008, FaceBook face privacy questions, BBC News, viewed on 10 November 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm
In addition, sites like FaceBook tells you whenever a friend adds another friend, or joins a new group, or posts a link, or adds a new application, or updates their profile, or changes their status, or just about anything else they do on FaceBook (Holter 2007). This article was written by Chris Vallance for BBC News on 18 January 2008 which highlights the issue of FaceBook invading the privacy of individuals.
This article is on FaceBook being questioned over its privacy policies by the Information Commissioner’s Office. FaceBook users have lodged complains that their personal information remains on the site even after the account is deactivated. FaceBook however, maintains that they comply with all data protection legislation and denies the claims made by the public (Vallance 2008).
The issue of FaceBook privacy is further cemented by a statement from Walsh (2006) “….Web Design provides factual information in words, graphics and images. Its purpose is to give the reader various types of information on a certain subject…”. With this, it can be seen that FaceBook is only doing its duty in providing information of its members.
Ultimately, what is private and public is for the members to choose. FaceBook as a Web site is only functioning to do its duty as a social networking site.
References
Walsh, M 2006, The textual shift: examining the reading process with print, visual and multimodal texts, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol.29, no.1, pp. 24-37
Holter, E 2007, To Facebook or Not to Facebook, viewed 9 November 2008, http://www.newfangled.com/benefits_of_facebook
Vallance, C 2008, FaceBook face privacy questions, BBC News, viewed on 10 November 2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7196803.stm
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