Sunday, October 17, 2010

Should Facebook be more concerned on Social Interaction OR Privacy?

  
   For the past few weeks, Facebook has had minor glitches and lockdowns due to the fact that their new version was out for appearance. Their new version changes the way people interact on Facebook groups.  See, before, people were limited due to regulations that had to be set within a group. Now, people have the ability to be in a group and talk to  one another.
"Before today’s changes, interactions on Facebook were primarily one-on-one (messages) or interactions with all of your Facebook friends (status updates).  From what I gathered, Groups is designed to solve that issue, something that Zuckerberg calls 'the biggest problem in social networking.'" -Mashable
"Two key examples Facebook’s CEO cited were that Group Chat is immediately disabled at 250 members and that e-mail notifications dwindle down from actions by all members to only actions by your friends in the group."
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Mashable
I recently got included in a group and it’s not as great as Zuckerberg makes it seem. First off, I didn’t even get the chance to have a say on whether or not I wanted to even be in the group. Second, since I’ve joined this group I’ve been notified of all the comments by every member in the group. Third, there is no privacy within the group. So if I were to say something negative in the group forum, people from outside the group would be able to see it if they wanted to. That’s something I really worry about with any social network.  Maybe it’s the way the administrator from the group made it be, but it should really be up to the person commenting to have a say on what should be seen by who.

The biggest problem in social networking isn’t how people interact. It’s their privacy.  Facebook has it’s loopholes to search for people.  Facebook is just too concern to be like Twitter.  Maybe, one day they’ll be more concerned with privacy than other issues such as social interaction.

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