Social Media and it's Privacy

I read the article “On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You” by

Jacquielynn Floyd. In the article, she brings up a point about Facebook users becoming touchy

over their different privacy settings in the terms of service. She spent a lot of time talking about

the unnecessary statements and happenings people post about. She stated, “How can we expect

somebody we don’t know to safe-guard our privacy if we think so little of ourselves?” One of

her concerns is that people do not know what parts of them are private and which are public.


She brings up many decent points, but I do believe that people post unnecessary

happenings because they know it is private. It is on the internet, so it is not completely private;

but the way that Facebook has their settings, it would be private to anyone the user is not

friends with. Because it is private, and the only people that are able to see what the user posts

are the “friends” of the user (whom the user approves or denies), people post what they think

is funny, exciting, or anything that they believe their friends might enjoy. As far as people not

understanding what is private and what is public, I disagree with that as well. There are many

different types of people in the world. Some people are more open than others are, so as far

as some people not understanding which side is private or personal is solely on what kind of

person they are. I believe they would say any of the stuff they post in person, as well as on their

Facebook page.