Question

How does Facebook's privacy management of users personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons?

Answer 1

Facebook’s privacy management of users’ personal information affect the behavior of Facebook patrons by not having our personal information protected with our privacy rights. “Facebook has a powerful incentive to push people into revealing more information”. I believe that this is a powerful statement, because there have been countless times that I have logged onto my Facebook and they have had popups telling me to share my phone number and all of my personal information and in my opinion when you log onto your networking site you don’t want to share all of your personal information. Although Facebook realized that they are not doing their part with privacy issues and released a ‘Groups’ section so that people could communicate and talk through social circles and share information with whom you would like, I still don’t believe that Facebook is living up to their promise to keep our information private. Also, there is the issue that when you go out with people they can share where we are and the other person does not have to approve the fact that it will post onto your page. Everyone can see where you were and it could lead to people being stalked (not saying that it will) but it should be a pressing concern with Facebook’s privacy issues.