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Why Facebook’s Privacy Concerns Are Real | Facebook's Privacy Concerns
Facebook over the last few weeks has had a hard time keeping tabs on their Public Relations problem over privacy concerns. Until this week, Facebook has kept quiet about the newest Facebooks’s Privacy concerns that users are making quite a backlash over.
After being essentially forced to make a statement, before his baby imploded on itself, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO and Founder wrote an Op Ed in the Washington Post about “… answering Facebook’s Privacy concerns with new settings.”
The statement from Zuckerberg couldn’t come at a more dire time, Facebook pushed the limits way to much with these privacy concerns by not making a proper statement fast enough.
Zuckerberg claims that “[Facebook] just missed the mark.” When it comes to privacy controls about what its users wanted. I am calling his bluff on this one, the concerns just finally got so out of control that Zuckerberg’s dream of owning the internet and its’ user’s content finally lost steam and his had to do damage control before losing all reputability in the industry and to his customers.
The problem Facebook had from the beginning is that the site started out as completely private and a closed ecosystem of interaction with only those people you wanted to interact with. Now, Facebook realizing the money to be made is in being open (ala Twitter) they are trying to change the overall premise of the company, something users who preferred privacy were not in favor of. Personally, I hate going onto CNN.com and seeing a story I posted from them onto my Facebook page. I never gave them permission to do that. When my data and interactions on the web now become private, I become concerned about what other information is going to those websites and advertisers.
Facebook is going to survive, no doubt, but the overall business plan and user experience when it comes to privacy needs to be cleaned up. They need to simplify, as Zuckerberg says, so that users can easily distinguish what is and is not public and use the site in the ways in which they wish to. Three settings could do it, with more in depth settings if “Advanced” users wished to. The settings I propose are “All Public”, “All Private”, and “Advanced.” Giving back freedom to the users in how their data is used is extremely important for Facebook in the long run.
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