Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Week 4 - Tutorial Task


Realities of Cyberspace

Blog post 2:
The Social networking site that I have chosen is Facebook. I think with any social networking site there should be terms and conditions of use, but some of the terms are a bit extreme. For example if you delete something off Facebook (photos, videos), they still have to right to keep that information in their system. They reefer to it as “a manner similar to emptying the recycle bin on a computer”, you understand that you have deleted the information but yet it is still kept somewhere in the backup copies. Once you post content on Facebook, they basically own it.  Facebook guarantees that they “never share your personal information” with their advertisers and that Facebook’s ad targeting is done entirely anonymously. “If advertisers select demographic targeting for their ads, Facebook automatically matches those ads to the appropriate audience.” I think that Facebook would be more popular with their users if they get rid of all the pop up advertising on the side of the page and just let the user decide what they want to look at and follow adverting wise on Facebook. I think that they should have to tell the user when they update their terms of service and what are the new terms that they have added.

http://blog.gcflearnfree.org/tag/facebook-privacy/

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