Are Our Personal Data Safe With Facebook?

Facebook, a social networking site is one of the most popular websites

, boasting more than 400 million active users and ongoing. However, due to its users posting personal data on this site, it is very important as to how Facebook handles its users information. Its growth has been met with criticism on a range of issues, especially the privacy of their users, child safety, data mining etc.

According to a website posted in Tinkrbox, a social bookmarking site, Facebook, in the beginning restricts user to show their personal information to just their friends and their network. Over the couple of years, these privacy settings become more and more permissive. The default settings of sharing personal information to only friends changed to sharing with public. The settings also became more and more confusing, all for the purpose of collecting user statistics. The side effect of this is that would unknowingly share their personal information to people that they do not know.

In a news article in Tinkrbox, Facebook was caught leaking user information to advertisers. Upon being caught, Facebook quickly changed its policy to prevent this from happening. Which brings us to the question, can we truly trust Facebook with our personal information? By just casually browsing through Facebook, we can already view pictures of strangers, their birthday and more if they had not configured their settings properly.

With these happenings, more and more users are quitting Facebook. There was even a QuitFacebookDay website being set up by disgruntled users who does not like how Facebook handle their personal information. A Facebook alternative is currently being developed, aimed at creating a social networking site which lets user control their network instead of leaving it to some company.

Where will Facebook be in the future? We will wait and see.

by: Ahvin

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