Thursday, October 2, 2014

Facebook Privacy Invasion

Social media has become a staple for our everyday life in our society. People are continuously posting,commenting,liking, and much more. By doing all of these our personal preferences and opinions are put on the internet. Yet, how much of our personal information is actually being monitored besides what we already know is out there? On the popular site Facebook, where people post things about their daily life, personal information is taken constantly. Just by simply clicking the like button on a photo it is monitored by Facebook and advertisements related to things you like are then on your news feed. By taking these seemingly simple actions, Facebook makes a million dollar market on advertisers. Many of us in today society have a smart phone with multiple apps on it. The Facebook app itself has a greater amount of privacy invasion than typically acknowledged. On their recent Instant Messenger app, the terms and conditions require access to monitor your phone calls, location, and messages. This is such a break of privacy that a large amount of people have fallen a subject to. Before you click "OK" or a "Like" button take a second thought, and put some consideration to your own privacy.

4 comments:

  1. I agree it is kind of scary. I've noticed that after I go to a website to buy something the adds on my computer are all for that one store's website. It's kind of creepy how they have specialized advertising and know the sites you've bought things from or were looking at.

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  2. Yeah I totally agree with you. I see ads on the side of my screen all of the time which relates to stuff I looked at recently online. What is even more frightening is that it will often not be at all related to stuff I liked, but instead just be recent websites and such.

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  3. I agree. It's kind of creepy how much information they take and gear toward advertising just for you. I see ads all over and most of them are enticing which just gives an unsettling feeling of how someone would know that the ad would peak my interest just by what I "liked".

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  4. An important issue. I'd recommend checking out "Terms and Conditions May Apply" on Netflix. It really digs deeper into this problem.

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