Criterion D:
The problem with Facebook is the privacy issues and people not having a full enough understanding of how much privacy they have and what the public in general can view on their profiles and what information they can access. The public not understanding or knowing is the main issue and Facebook need to create a solution to help their members understand about privacy when they join. There are always terms and agreements that should be read when joining however, most of the public find it unnecessary and think it takes up too much time to read the whole agreement.
A solution to this problem would be for Facebook to create a new process when joining the site so that the person joining has to go through a number of steps where they are viewing the profile that they can make and so they can view what non-friends and the general public can view. The person joining can then decide what they want accepted friends, and the general public to view. This is also a process that current members should have to go through; because the main issue is with the members who are unaware of how much of their information is being viewed by the public.
This would solve the privacy issues as joining members would know what the public would be able to view, and current members would have the chance to change what on their profiles could be viewed.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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