Emergency of Facebook

According to Delaney (2007) in his article, “The sinister side of social networking”, nowadays many people share their personal details and talk about their private lives on social networking Web sites. Therefore, the use of social networking sites leads to issues of privacy, and some defense groups prompt user urgency. Originally, Facebook featured privacy between friends, but now it is more opened and does not have a function of privacy. That makes a criminal’s job easier, and marketers can use and collect the private information easily. According to Monroe, it is a global phenomenon, so it will be a global issue.

It is clear that Facebook affects users. In fact, Facebook has lots of accessories such as not only a picture holder and a massage board but also functions which are interesting. The more accessories Facebook has, the more users Facebook can have. However, instead of these good aspects, Facebook has problems with security, privacy and responsibility. Therefore, Facebook should cover these problems.

First of all, nowadays it is no exaggeration to say many people use Facebook in the United States. Our life is surely rich. We can contact our friends each who we can meet directly, who live far away, and moreover, who we have never met, through Facebook. Facebook is still trying to progress, so this company is developing new accessories one after another in order to get more users. However, Facebook is seeking to develop the function so much, that they miss ensuring security for their users. Facebook should take care about many possible crimes and strengthen the security more for users. If Facebook keeps overlooking the security problems, many people would be affected because of using Facebook.

Next, Facebook should manage to avoid bad situations. The fact that private information leaks on the net affects users. Facebook has a lot of information to show users’ identity. Moreover, on the message board, people write down any aspect of their private information freely. Therefore, from this information, people can guess where their friends are, what they are doing or when their birthday is. This information sometimes might make crimes.

Finally, people inquire about Facebook’s responsibility, because it affects users for users. When users’ incidents happened, Facebook did not deal with the issues rightly. Therefore Facebook needed to know the risk of private information leaks and educate users about the risks. Facebook should offer users this site without risk.

In conclusion, Facebook should manage them selves more strictly, because Facebook has a loss of security and privacy, and responsibility for users. However, as far as there are users, both users and Facebook need to measure about that. If both of them do not measure, many problems will become more serious and lead to global issues.

Reference
Delaney, B. (2007, September 7). The sinister side of social networking. Retrieved 31 March, 2008, from LexisNexis.