Privacy problem at Zuckerberg’s

Facebook, two simple words which together stand for a word that everybody knows nowadays. The biggest social network website in the world with more than 500 million accounts. These 500 million accounts contain of a lot information what is very attractive for a lot of people and organizations. Normally, this information should be out of bounds for organizations because every social networking website has a firm privacy policy.

But lately the questions about Facebooks privacy policy form the headliners in the media. A lot of members are complaining that it’s very difficult to implement privacy applications on the website, what results in a lot of organizations using this information for their own good, without the members approving this. An example was the music website Pandora which used Facebooks ‘instant personalization’, what resulted in special music results adjusted on peoples Facebook accounts. While Facebook is getting paid gradually for this favor, the Facebook members privacy is being betrayed.

And this is not the first time Facebook comes up with a unreliable marketing activity like this one. Earlier this year the ‘’Beacon’’ campaign was launched, but this campaign died when members revolted massively. Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of the company was already caught on saying not-so-nice things about privacy matters in the beginning when Facebook was just a website for Harvard students, but it seems like people are forgetting these things because the website still grows in accounts per day and the privacy policy is still very sloppy.



If you don't believe the doubts, check it out, see if you still think the same about he great FACEBOOK!

My personal vision about this is that the United States government should rise and be the bigger man without hurting the members of the website. Sir Zuckerberg should be put in his place and learn that peoples private lives are at stake, instead of thinking about his already filled wallet. I also have an account myself on the website cause it is bloody handy to stay in touch with friends overseas, but if their privacy policy is not going to change I’m going to switch. And let’s be honest there a lot of other websites, like the Dutch social networking website Hyves, which is growing in accounts every month. And has a reliable privacy policy.

Greetings,
Riza the Blogman