Writing Assignment 1 Post 2

Facebook goes back to old policies after millions of users complained about who owns the rights to their pictures, videos, and personal information that they share on the social networking website.

People post their lives on their Facebook page. They post pictures of their families, friends, pets, events, and parties. Some people even post their address, their email address, their screen name, their job, and their telephone number on their page. Other people post videos that they took of their friends doing stupid things, or of sporting events they went to, or concerts they attended. Personally I think some people put up way to information on their page about their personal life.

Yes I think it is wrong for Facebook to claim that your pictures that you post on Facebook are theirs even after your delete your page, because you don’t want them to sell your pictures to someone else. But how is Facebook going to stop other people from coping and pasting your picture for your Facebook page and doing what they want with it. Yes you can manage who can and cannot see you page, but that doesn’t always stop other people from finding others ways to find your information. A person who is friends with someone else who is your friend on Facebook can show them your page so they can get the information that they want. Or even hackers can hack into your page to get your information or even mess up your Facebook page.

I also think it is wrong that Facebook has your information forever even after your delete your Facebook page. I think once you decide to delete your Facebook page that everything goes with it including your pictures and information that you posted.

Basically it comes down to one thing, if you don’t want people knowing all your information, or seeing your pictures don’t post it!

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