Technology & Online

Facebook privacy - are you worried?

Technology & Online

Posted by: CafestudyAdmin

11th Apr 2018 12:36pm

Following the recent Facebook privacy scandal, have you changed your behaviour on Facebook? Are you conscious about how much you share and are you worried about your privacy?

Thomas30903391
  • 8th May 2018 01:55pm

I have always been a bit wary of Facebook and other forms of social media in terms of who can see your posts/information etc and what the companies use the data for. Privacy concerns are the most obvious for me, information being sold to advertisers etc and potential for hacking seems a bit more of a risk than other online entities. As a result I do not post confidential information on social media, whether it be status updates around holidays I'm on, photos of family etc or any other personal data like financial information etc. I also only "friend" people I know personally, rather a smaller but more sincere group, plus I don't have hours of time free each day to go online and chat to everyone and keep up with what they are all doing.

The recent scandal probably justified my conservative view and approach to social media. I'm a bit surprised to be honest it didn't happen sooner, and the vague answers and dodging answering questions from the Facebook powers at be just add more fuel to this fire. Honesty and openness is required if Facebook want to regain the trust of its users.

My behaviour hasn't changed as I feel I've never exposed myself on Facebook or any other social media site, I limit my interactions with a well known close knit group and keep comments/status's etc quite generic in nature. Anything of a personal or in depth nature I save for a phone call or face to face chat.


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