Facebook Newest Privacy Settings by Claudia Sonea

The Internet is occupying an important place in people’s lives nowadays. More and more people are discovering the benefits of surfing the web for information, holiday rentals, shopping and even find true love. Among the top choices for Internet users are the social sites that give the possibility to share pictures, music, thoughts, and videos with friends and family, as well as to make new friends. Facebook holds the flag of leadership among the social sites. Yet, the luck of getting over 500 million users attracted the misfortune of being target for criticism. Because there was no fault at the soci! al site that offers quality time to users’, the charge brought was that the privacy is neglected and that a safer system should be introduced. In fact when we created an account, there was no one forcing us to write our personal information, nor to fill in accurate personal coordinates and attach our real picture. It was our option to make our life public and the amount of personal information shared depended on us. Nonetheless, privacy is a serious matter and Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, give a lot of importance to users’ desires and suggestions. Therefore, after months of feedbacks coming from all over the world, they came up with a privacy settings page that will reduce significantly the information that is visible to everyone. That is more of a waste of time as there is already the option to make yourself visible only to friends/family and you can also control what is displayed on your page. What is, however, e! xtremely useful is that third parties like the groups joined a! nd the a pplications added will no longer have access to our information. The changes brought Zuckerberg praises not only from users, but also from politicians that were harshly criticizing the service not long ago. It is a step towards a better privacy policy of the Internet sites that require opening an account.

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by Claudia Sonea for Cantell TV (http://cantell.tv)

Cantell TV is the fastest growing provider of digital broadcasting coupled with telecommunications, allowing people to easily co! ntrol, view, upload and share digital content through proprietary interface coupled with free phone calls. Cantell TV is committed to delivering infinite choices to your world of entertainment at the tip of your fingers.