Young people share the most intimate details of personal life on social-networking Web sites, such as MySpace and Facebook, portending a realignment of the public and the private. In my opinion, I feel that sometimes yes, sometimes no. If it is not as the social-networking sites allow seemingly trivial gossip to be distributed to a worldwide audience, sometimes making people the butt of rumours shared by millions of users across the Internet.
Facebook is another example to show that is there a privacy given to the online social networking because it seems to attract most of the people, while at the same time offering the most comprehensive set of controls on any site I have seen. On Facebook, there is a dialog boxes to control access to most objects. An object’s owner can restrict access to the following choice:
Facebook is another example to show that is there a privacy given to the online social networking because it seems to attract most of the people, while at the same time offering the most comprehensive set of controls on any site I have seen. On Facebook, there is a dialog boxes to control access to most objects. An object’s owner can restrict access to the following choice:
Only Me—which provides complete privacy
Some Friends—which permits an explicit list of people to access the Object
Only Friends—which permits all friends to access the Object—of course, implying friends within the Facebook network
Friends of Friends—which broadens access to all of a user’s friends, plus friends of their friends
Everyone on Facebook—which makes the Object completely public
The Facebook options imply a hierarchy of privacy, including the ability to explicitly deny access to a list of selected people. Hence, we have to emphasize on personal privacy and information security carefully.
~Pei Ling~
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