Facebook Responds
Facebook is responding to legitimate concerns over privacy by revising some of its policies. {The social network} built its base of nearly 500 million users on the notion that it was a place for people to connect with each other and post their likes, dislikes, photos, activities with as wide a circle as they chose to define. Facebook, in turn, used that information to show users advertisements based on their tastes.
But Facebook has become the focus of an increasingly heated debate over whether it was keeping its end of the bargain and giving users an easy, straightforward and consistent way to set their limits. It has regularly revised its privacy settings, made them harder to find and massaged the way it describes the meaning of privacy. Leaving Facebook for good is a complex chore.
These are legitimate concerns. After a public outcry, Facebook is responding to them by revising some of its privacy policies...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/opinion/...
But Facebook has become the focus of an increasingly heated debate over whether it was keeping its end of the bargain and giving users an easy, straightforward and consistent way to set their limits. It has regularly revised its privacy settings, made them harder to find and massaged the way it describes the meaning of privacy. Leaving Facebook for good is a complex chore.
These are legitimate concerns. After a public outcry, Facebook is responding to them by revising some of its privacy policies...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/25/opinion/...
