Facebook Life
Is Facebook’s Privacy confusing?
Everyone
here basically has a Facebook, or at least knows what it is. The chatting site
that Mark Zuckerburg created, the one that gets millions of hits when people
log on. The site that companies use to
advertise their stuff they wanna sell, where friends get on to chat, like things,
poke people [everyone loves a good poke ;3] and sometimes stalk people [Okay,
most people don’t do this, I’m just throwing it out there…or, at least I hope no one does this o.o].
Over
the years, Facebook has gotten more people to use it. Kids as young as 10 have
been using Facebook though the proper age to have a Facebook is 13. Facebook
seems to becoming popular fast. [Oh how happy Zuckerburg must be!] But as
Facebook becomes more popular, people begin to add and change stuff-or at least
try. The way things like who can see what, who can tag who, who can block and
all that. Basically, it’s called Privacy of Facebook. People seem to change how
the Privacy-Rule is being run.
Privacy
is a good thing-who would want people to stalk them [No offense to those who
do? o.o] You want to upload a private family
photo that only certain some people can see, well Facebook can allow that. But,
is it all becoming too confusing for people to understand? Are they really able
to stop some people from seeing their things?
Randi Zuckerburg-the sister
of Mark-had tried to upload a photo-a family photo-where only some people could
see it, she used the privacy settings to make sure of that, or she thought. But
Callie Schweitzer, a mutual friend of the Zuckerburgs saw it and shared it on
Twitter and Randi found out and didn’t like it, Callie was realizing it was
supposed to be a private photo. She was like it’s "way uncool" for
Schweitzer to post the private photo to Twitter. But, how could Callie have
known? The photo hadn’t been private like Zuckerburg thought it was-though she
had a bit of her brother’s help-it showed up in her news feed, and Callie
thought it was good enough to share.
Of course, Callie deleted
the photo from Twitter and apologized-though some do think that she shouldn’t
have, it was Zuckerburg’s fault that the photo was seen, one person even says:
” But
hold the phone, Callie! Don't apologize.
Doesn't Randi Zuckerberg understand her privacy settings and how a photo on
Facebook might suddenly fly out of her control? She's merely compromising her
personal desires for the forward march of Facebook's benevolent reign and the
advancement of the new, new social-media contract. No
comprende? That's her problem.” So now, it’s a big thing, all because the
Facebook-Privacy guide line was too confusing for poor Randi.
This isn’t the only problem.
For a while, Facebook has been accused of having a too-difficult guideline to
Privacy, no one is really certain if their things are private to some people or
not. In a photo album, people put their settings to a certain thing, thinking
it goes the way they set it, then later, do they found out that the photo album
is really not private, that it’s public, that people the person didn’t want to
able to see the photo album can actually see it. [If it’s too confusing, here I’ll
use names. Okay. So. Person who sets their photo album so only certain people
can see it: Ali. Person Ali doesn’t want to see her album: Maria. Ali sets her
photo album views to a certain thing. Or so she thinks. She realizes that Maria
can actually see her photo album, and now she’s fed up because she thought it
was set to a certain setting.]
Have you ever had
Privacy-setting issues? Have you ever wanted to make sure the public didn’t see
a certain thing? Like a family photo like Randi? But then you realize that the
public could actually see it? And you get pissed off or upset? Don’t worry, you’re
just one of millions of people who have the same problem. I’m sure Facebook
will fix it. [Also, don’t let this affect how you use Facebook. o.o] Just…be careful who gets to see certain things
of yours, okay? o.o
