Last week Facebook updated its privacy settings, and screwed us over.
The company thought it would be a great idea to make everyone’s privacy settings to public. Easy for us tech savy people to change, but for the average user, not quite. If your privacy settings were changed in the first place, you can restore them back. If they are not changed, you will have to modify everything.
The reason they did this is of course for money. They can sell your phone number and email for money. Yes, your phone number and email are being shown to the public right now, if you did not change your settings back.
The day after this came out, I went to add a friend I met at a party. She is quite attractive, so I thought why not look at her pictures. I realized I didn’t have her added and she might just not care that her email, phone number, and pictures were released. But then I realized, she doesn’t know the settings were changed!
Facebook just shouldn’t have done this. It is unfair to its 350 million users. I think people use Facebook because of its safety. The way you can pick and choose your privacy settings, appeals to a 14 year old, who doesn’t want to run into any trouble. I think Facebook is close to losing all credibility. So go change your privacy settings, fast!