Privacy on SNS

As we live in the digital age, people pay more attention to the privacy on the internet and social network sites such as facebook in particular. From the reading ‘Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck’, Danah Boyd mentioned that “News Feeds” on Facebook made aggregating information more accessible and visible to everyone and pointed out how this new feature expose information in public. But, as long as you control privacy how much and what you are going to share, I don’t think this new feature is a big problem as a privacy loss.

I have an account on Facebook and whenever I log in to facebook, News feed provides me information about what my friends have been up to and with whom they accepted as “friend” lately which helps me keep tabs on them. Usually I use facebook only to interact with friends I already know, and I don’t want to all the materials and information I share with them to be available for anyone to see. So I checked my privacy settings on facebook and made sure that all materials I have on SNS is only available to me and my friends.

I guess many people fear of what other people may think of their actions on facebook or on any other SNS. If people don’t want to lose their privacy and not get embarrassed, they may need to check their facebook for any inappropriate postings and also untag themselves from the drunken photos.

To sum up, I think it is our responsibility to limit and control personal information on the internet. SNS user should control their own privacy settings and more cautions should be taken when they posting some personal details on internet.