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An Appealing Thesis for Teens: Facebook’s TOS
These days, parents know their children better not by sitting in the dinner table but by looking them up in one of the most prominent social networking sites, Facebook. This site is so powerful that anything written about it, including a thesis, will be completely devoured by the unpredictable teen and tween generations.
Facebook sprung into being courtesy of a former Ivy League student, Mark Zuckenberg in February 2004. Initially, the site was only known to Harvard students and became available for world consumption a few months after. Its social appeal is so wide that there were even cases that law enforcers, specifically the Great Manchester Police in Great Britain, have been using it as a crime deterrent via an application.
However, this social networking site, with over 175 million users, has also a downside; shrewd persons have been using it to play pranks on innocent individuals. Take for example the case of Stuart Slann, who had to endure humiliation after he had an affair with a non-existent girl named Emma who was created by Liverpool fans whom he had a fight with. He got divorced from his wife after the incident.
In spite of those occurrences, people of all ages continue to flock Facebook and update their profiles as frequent as they change clothes. They pose shout-outs on their profiles and people treat those shout-outs as breaking news on Twitter. People put all kinds of photos in their profiles and sometimes those photos turn out to be incriminating like the case of Charlotte-based school employee who got the boot after photos of a suggestive pose with a girl surfaced in his Facebook account. A same scenario occurred with the teacher who posted in her shout box that she was sick and fed up of her students. In spite of these mishaps, users still upload their personal information and photos without any hesitation.
The tables have turned and users are on an outrage after social networking giant announced that all saved photos will be Facebook property. It is only now that people recognize their privacies are hanging on the edge. Don’t they realize that their personal information have been compromised from the very start?
Who can really tell if they haven’t started out compiling all the personal data even if they have reinstated the old TOS? Operative word here is caution, caution, and caution.
Facebook sprung into being courtesy of a former Ivy League student, Mark Zuckenberg in February 2004. Initially, the site was only known to Harvard students and became available for world consumption a few months after. Its social appeal is so wide that there were even cases that law enforcers, specifically the Great Manchester Police in Great Britain, have been using it as a crime deterrent via an application.
However, this social networking site, with over 175 million users, has also a downside; shrewd persons have been using it to play pranks on innocent individuals. Take for example the case of Stuart Slann, who had to endure humiliation after he had an affair with a non-existent girl named Emma who was created by Liverpool fans whom he had a fight with. He got divorced from his wife after the incident.
In spite of those occurrences, people of all ages continue to flock Facebook and update their profiles as frequent as they change clothes. They pose shout-outs on their profiles and people treat those shout-outs as breaking news on Twitter. People put all kinds of photos in their profiles and sometimes those photos turn out to be incriminating like the case of Charlotte-based school employee who got the boot after photos of a suggestive pose with a girl surfaced in his Facebook account. A same scenario occurred with the teacher who posted in her shout box that she was sick and fed up of her students. In spite of these mishaps, users still upload their personal information and photos without any hesitation.
The tables have turned and users are on an outrage after social networking giant announced that all saved photos will be Facebook property. It is only now that people recognize their privacies are hanging on the edge. Don’t they realize that their personal information have been compromised from the very start?
Who can really tell if they haven’t started out compiling all the personal data even if they have reinstated the old TOS? Operative word here is caution, caution, and caution.
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