With social media outlets like Facebook constantly making various changes in hopes to advance on an even bigger platform, it's vital that members pay close attention to how it affects their privacy settings. Now that Facebook plans to adopt the new timeline feature and make it mandatory for all users, it's important to pay close attention to the privacy settings that come with these changes.
It recently hit me in one of my classes, focused on social media strategies, that many people are not aware of the information that is open and available to anyone who has a computer as well as internet access. My class professor introduced the class to Storify, an online story generator (which is pretty awesome by the way, check it out), in which you can use various websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube and access any available information that is out there. This got me thinking, I wonder if these people even know that complete strangers can see their status updates without them even having a clue. Kind of scary when you think about it...
Aside from the privacy issues that Facebook has to constantly deal with, you also have those crazy computer nerds out there who can easily hack into your information. In the case of the IT dad, this is exactly what happened. After watching this video, which began to circulate via Facebook, I found it very humorous but at the same time, it reiterated the idea of privacy. In this particular video, a girl posted negative comments about her parents which later results in her father finding out and having a very memorable reaction. Watch for yourself.
Until next time ladies and gentlemen.
Brittani J. Wilkins
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