Sunday, 19 March 2017
Saturday, 18 March 2017
Privacy safeguard at Facebook
One of the more popular social networking Web site
is Facebook. This quickly growing service differentiates itself from other
online networks by having widespread privacy controls. Facebook enables users
to choose their own privacy settings and choose who can see specific parts of
their profile. Facebook requires a user’s name and profile picture (if
applicable) to be accessible by everyone.
· The processes to be the
registered user of Facebook.com:
a.
First, create an account by inserting full name, e-mail, password, birthday and
gender.
b. Click on the
“create an account button”
c. Once you
have successfully created an account, you’ll be automatically signed in.
d. Then you will be
directed to another page, “Find Friends”. This can be done by linking the
Facebook account with our phone, e-mail contacts or on Facebook itself.
· The functions available at
Facebook.com to protect users’ privacy:
One
of the function available at Facebook.com to protect users privacy is privacy
button. Facebook provide its user with privacy button on each post which let
users to change the post’s privacy. This button consist option like sharing
option such as public, friends of friends, custom (limited user) and only me.
Public option allow users post to be viewed by Facebook users around the world,
while friends of friends means only user and their friend only can see the post
without other users knows. Besides, custom option let users to choose only
certain friends can see the posts and option of only me allow only users can
see their own post without user around the world know it.
·
The
problems faced by users with respect to their privacy control implemented at of
Facebook.com:
a.
Privacy setting (2009) - Facebook changed their privacy
settings so that sharing information with everyone became the default setting
and removed the news feed privacy controls put in place after their "big
mistake" in 2006
b. More privacy problems (2010) - A glitch in February 2010 caused
some private messages on Facebook to be sent to unintended
recipients and that May a coding error opened Facebook chats, which
are supposed to be private, to others.
c. A few weeks later, the Wall
Street Journal revealed that Facebook and other social networking websites "have
been sending data to advertising companies that could be used to find
consumers' names and other personal details, despite promises they don't share
such information without consent". Zuckerberg soon responded on the
Facebook blog, announcing that they would make it easier to control privacy
settings and give users more say over what information is made public.
·
How do
you rate the privacy control implemented at Facebook.com with the other popular
social networking web site?
We would rate the privacy control at facebook.com
three out of five. This is because the level of privacy on Facebook is more
versatile compare to other social media such as Instagram and twitter which
both site only have public or private setting. Unlike facebook.com it give more
privacy option like public, friends of friends, custom (limited user) and only
me.
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