I believe most people are using services from various social networking sites such as facebook, twitter, friendster ect. Such social networking sites allows users to post information about themselves, photos and videos of themselves. It is also able to let other people view sensitive information such as mobile number, email address and more.
So are there privacy in such social networking sites? I guess not. In facebook, users can post anything on their friends wall, for example pictures or even offensive messages. This will cause other friends of that particular user to see, which leaves the user with no privacy. Maybe if its posted on his/her wall, they can remove it. However, if its pictures of the person posted on other users account they won't be able to remove it.
Groups and fan pages are also created. People can write anything they want on the page they created, this would allow all facebook users to be able to view the contents of the page, including if there are offensive messages about others or sensitive pictures/videos of others. This leaves the person with no privacy at all.
In twitter, users can also tweet about anything they like. Whether is it flaming at others or talking about others, which such social networking site increasing, privacy of users are decreasing rapidly. However there also options to keep information to be viewable for selected friends. This is the only privacy given in social networking sites nowaday.
-Tang Ming Wei
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