Facebook & Website Business
Lately, there has been a lot of talk regarding quitting Facebook due to the privacy concerns users had with Facebook.
Facebook changed the way people behave on internet and for many users it is must to do things for the day. The good side of the Facebook is that it allows users to make connection and build social relationship online which indirectly provides countless advantages to the users globally.
But everyone needs to understand that they need to keep the services up and running for the users and also fulfil their own ambition (become wealthy). And for this they need to earn revenue and make good profits. Don’t forget that Facebook has been pumped with lots of money from investors who mostly care about the returns.
For revenue Facebook requires advertisement and qualified leads for the advertisers therefore they will always require to understand what users are up to and what they like or dislike, etc. By all means it’s a fair business model. Google, Yahoo and now Twitter is also adapting to this business model.
Facebook also provides the users to opt in and opt out and keep things private or public. They might have made it difficult but not impossible for user to do what they want to do with their information. Simple rule would be that if you don’t want the information to be public then you should not publish it at all. That will resolve all the problems and concerns.
Also please note that it’s a virtual world and what you do can be easily tracked by your friend in your group or even someone who is not in your group. Unfortunately this is the price every online user pays with one way or another. The longer you stay on such sites and share your information or even register, there is more likelihood that your information or behaviour can be tracked and analysed. Therefore choose carefully how much and where you want to spend your time.
A user should take care of the following while using social networking websites like Facebook:
- Classify your friends based on privacy
- Review your current privacy settings and understand it in detail before you choose to opt in or opt out
- Don’t publish information which you think is very confidential and private. Don’t take risk even if you know that it will remain private as per the published terms and conditions
- Don’t accept friend request unless you know the person
- Keep your professional and personal life different on such social networking sites as you would do in your real life
At the end please understand that it not Facebook who publishes your information on Facebook; ITS YOU.
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Posted on Jul 13, 2011
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