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Facebook Privacy Issues
0 Comments | Posted by Social Empire Media Marketing in Social Media
As most have probably heard by now, Facebook has had some issues with privacy settings. First users complain that the privacy settings aren’t good enough and then they claim they are too complicated. For a while now it seems that Facebook has been struggling with keeping it’s users happy.
On the flip side, Facebook is a phenomena that is new to all of us. The marketing power from networking on Facebook is very powerful and I think most of us would agree that the good out weighs the bad on Facebook. However, privacy is a huge issue in our world today and users take this very seriously and rightfully so. Because the popularity of Facebook is something uncharted there is no way they were going to be able to do everything perfectly right off the bat. Times change, and so do the issues that affect us all. The best a company can do is to try to foresee problems and prevent them and then take action quickly when issues do arise.
The CEO of Facebook came out in an open letter saying that while they may have hesitated to speak out until recently, they have been focusing on fixing the issues that are a problem. We have to hand it to Facebook for being proactive and for looking after it’s users and listening to their feedback so that they can make the appropriate changes.
There are claims that many Facebook users have closed their accounts recently. While this may be justified (no one can really tell) it is recommended to change your privacy settings to protect yourself and to not reveal things on any social networking site (or anywhere really) that you do not want shared with the world.
