This article is about the privacy, or lack there of on Facebook. In the 90s, Internet use reached a new high, and we were spending increasing time online. With social networking, this number has continued to grow. Facebook has often been targeted for criticism based on the lack of privacy we have on the website. The website has changed based on the amount of people who use it, and one of the main incomes of Facebook is advertising. Facebook began with no advertising, and then there was some. Soon, the advertisements were user specific, meaning that the advertisements that you were seeing were specifically tailored to you. All that Facebook has said on the matter is "if you don't like it, you are free to leave us".
I think that this is an issue because if advertisers can tell what your interests are and who would be interested in buying their product, this means that basically anyone could be finding out your interests, where you live, and how old you are, anybody could. Facebook has really shown that they aren't interested in whether you really care about privacy, because people are not leaving the website, even though they are upset about it. Facebook currently has over 630-million users, and they know that they will continue to grow whether they care about privacy or not.
I want to know why these people who are criticizing and complaining about the lack of privacy on Facebook have not updated their privacy setting. Facebook has recently come out with a setting that you can change if you want, and there are many things you can do to make yourself feel safe (only allowing yourself to add others, instead of others adding you, not allowing strangers to see your pictures, birthday, age, where you're from, email, etc). I also want to know why Facebook hasn't done anything more. If they made everything more private, I'm sure that would have many more users.
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