Facebook was built as a powerful social connexion , allowing users to befriend others with standardised interests , locations , schools , and more . But as privacy concerns mount and users take more tribute , the social networking site ’s school of thought has commence to go down the can . Now that Facebook is eliminating regional web — or groupings of mass found on where they subsist — it ’s becoming apparent that proclivities lean towards building fences rather than crossing them .
When you ’re in someone ’s net — like if you belonged to the same shoal or company — you essentially “ ally ” everyone on that internet , allowing others to see the entirety of your Facebook page . ( This can be changed in your privacy mise en scene . ) Regional networks granted access code to wider swath of likely friends , but therein was the business organization : how much is too much ? Do we really desire the intact city of Boston looking at last yr ’s Halloween pictures ? Is making friends with these strangers something I desire to do ?
consort to the original philosophy behind Facebook , yeah , you might desire to make friends with hundreds of strangers . Why else would they create a internet site where people electronically “ fulfil ” one another ?
The underlying privateness concern are absolve . Now that Facebook has 350 million user , regional networks have expanded into the millions . Many people either are n’t sure how to exchange their privacy preferences or they do not care , because , as I note to begin with , throttle the internet of people able to take in your profile is just a clink forth . So instead of educate its users on how to protect their concealment , and maintaining its creed , Facebook blue-pencil regional networks altogether , a symbolic gesture of closing the gates .
Facebook has had more than its share of concealment problems . There ’s theBeacon fiasco ; the lawsuits ; thefederal complaints;international investigations ; andschemes galore . There are also a multitude of method acting to protect your privacy both on Facebook and on-line in general . If Facebook users became more acquainted with the power they have to protect themselves , perhaps sweeping shut - downs such as these would n’t be necessary . But as Facebook locks doors and tosses keys , I can not help but sense it ’s headed in the diametric direction from whence it started , dismantling its very purpose , and adopt an attitude of exclusivity .
