Facebook Redefines the Word "Private"
Facebook is a very well known social networking site, and with well over a million users and growing we can see the extent of which this social networking site is growing. However, since facebook is a public site, to what extent should users have the right to post private content? Many people will post pictures on the facebook website without the consent of others, this in a way is breaching somebody’s personal privacy. You can apply it to anything you upload to facebook, whether it be an audio recording or a photo. But are facebook being too lenient towards its users? Read this article to dive further into the discussion of this highly controversial issue.
Facebook in many ways breaches people’s privacy by allowing its users to host information, multimedia and more. However, is it right for facebook to allow this? Of course, to many of us, simply hosting a picture of our friends from a night out may seem like a harmless act. In fact, this situation seems to be pretty safe, however this is where the majority of people are wrong, they are just assuming that it is okay to provide pictures of people they know on facebook without consent. This can apply for general information also, and it is wrong that many people impose their views as a substitute for other people’s rights. It is important that people have their rights, but breaching privacy in some cases can be very wrong. Almost anyone can sign up on facebook and lie about their age, occupation and location, and you are leaving people’s privacy in a wide open view for anyone to read. Breaching privacy is wrong, and there is nothing that should say that it is okay to breach somebody’s personal privacy. What do you think? Is breaching privacy right?
When you consider how big facebook is and how easy it is to sign up you can just see how much people are at threat by advertising their lives to the online world. There are options to privatise your account so that only your friends can view your profile, however it does not seem to be a standard option. In fact, it seems to be an option which many people don’t use simply because they are not aware of the dangers of advertising their lives and other peoples live on a social networking site. In fact, there are many dangers of allowing your information to be exclusive and available to view. For example, just consider how easily a sex offender could target someone using facebook, it may seem like a rather extreme case, but it is in fact that easy for somebody to sign up and lie about their identity in order to take advantage of people. So what is your opinion? Is facebook too easy to sign up to? Should it be as exclusive as it currently is?
Apple TV: Spotlight at Center Field
In case you don't know, Apple TV is a new production of Apple Inc., which primarily allows you to watch Podcast videos, youtube clips, browse picture collections, and store mass amounts of shows, videos, and music all from your living room television set.
The Apple TV is affordably priced at $229, considering how many features it has, this is obviously a bargain, and soon will include movie rentals. It comes in two models, 40 GB and the 160 GB, and unfortunately does not include an actual TV with it. The actual device is similar to a Wii transmitter that sits near the television and the remote reminds me of an IPod Nano.
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