Monday, September 8, 2008

Summary on Sam’s article- Facebook the world’s most popular social networking site has added an unpopular feature known as News Feed. This feature allows user of the site to constantly check up on their friends updates and other private information that they may not want viewed. Many have protested against this new feature with their concerns to privacy. They ironically used Facebook to petition against Facebook. With over 280,000 members on a single anti- News Feed group (which currently has over 28,000 signatures on the petition), Facebook has finally taken notice. Some people are against News Feed as a whole, while others just want a privacy feature added so they can regulate who’s viewing their updates. Facebook CEO and founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has responded to these petitions, by reiterating Facebook’s privacy features and promoting News Feed as a “cool way to know what’s going on your friends’ live.” So if you value your privacy or you just aren’t very comfortable with being monitored by outside parties, you may want to think twice about joining Facebook. At the end of the day if you choose to join a social networking site, such as Facebook, you have to take into account all the ramifications you may encounter. If you don’t mind possibly millions of judging eyes studying and observing your every move, then maybe you shouldn’t be joining a social networking site. Facebook has no intentions of changing the News Feed feature anytime soon, an important note to take into consideration when using this site. Due to its similarities to a “Big Brother” world, Facebook has had many users divided on the issue of whether or not they should keep News Feed alive.

3 comments:

Jonathan Eakin said...

Facebook with or without News Feed can be seen as violating privacy rights. I agree with Sam, If you don't like others intruding on your business you probably shouldn't join the site.

erik said...

in my oppinion the news feeds are a little over the top. however i agree with sam and jonathan that if you are a private person you can always just not join the site.

Salisha said...

I think News Feed is violating people's privacy. However, I do agree with Erick, Jonathan and Sam that if people really had a problem with privacy, they wouldn't join the site.