Facebook And Privacy – A Brief History

May 10, 2010 | By Marc Porcelli | No Comments »

Facebook has been in the news a lot lately regarding their privacy changes and at times, issues. I came across a great interactive post recently titled, The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook by Matt Mckeon that all readers should spend some time with.

Click on the years on the right-hand-side and you can see how over the last few years, more and more of users information has become public. Search and organic listings, obviously played a role in doing this, but Facebook also has a philosophy to open-up the internet or to enable sharing. As much as this has come under fire by privacy watchdogs, there has also been a lot of good that everyone seems to forget about.

For myself personally, Facebook has been about getting in touch with old friends and staying in contact with new and existing friends. Friends I otherwise with my schedule would not be able to keep in contact with. The challenge for Facebook now seems to be balancing the ambition to share or map the social graph, as Facebook refers to it, with the need to protect users privacy.

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