The United States Constitution is 1000 words shorter than Facebook’s privacy policy. Before, there were more than 50 settings and 170 options to manage your privacy settings. Facebook even beats its rivals twitter, flickr, myspace and friendster in not only popularity but also its length of privacy policy.
Social Networking was not that complicated 5 years before. Once, there was a really good time we used to spend dressing our profile page, adding new friends, chatting and sharing pics with them. Now, it is not that fun left in social networking.
All over, the meaning of social networking is changed from what it was once. Money ruled social networking as more and more people (consumers) diverted their interest from being occupied in real to the virtual world.
Facebook took the lead by addicting us to their superbly created User Interface, helped us in connecting with hundreds of people each day, gave us opportunity to create our own show via wall status, hooked us with plenty of games and applications.
Facebook a website serves most of the internet population of world, a website which popped up to 1st rank in US disabling Google to be happy with 2nd position.
Last month when Facebook Privacy Issue went viral in almost every big and small media websites and blogs, people anticipated the golden era of Facebook is reached to an untimely end.
But facebook decided to take a U turn, rather than being sticked to their privacy policy they indicated to resolve privacy issue soon again with a new, better user controlled privacy model.
Still the big portion of facebook user base is unaware of what happened in last few months. It is very common phenomenon that social networking site is for fun and to connect with others. Who cares what that particular site is gaining from user activity after all they are giving us so much free of cost.
How much we really care about Privacy on facebook? Most of the 500 million facebook users don’t care about it, majority of them even don’t know what this privacy is all about and those who know little bit they don’t want to stumble upon reading the lengthiest page on facebook i.e. its Privacy policy.
I was same like any other careless internet user, I am too lazy to read long privacy policies of websites I register, but somewhere in brain there were questions regarding internet privacy. So I tried to answer my own questions, I hope it will help you too.
What is Privacy Policy according to Wikipedia?
It is a legal document which shows what information of customer party gathers, manage or share with others.
It was first introduced by EU in 1995 as Data Protection Directive and later by Unites States Federal Trade Commission as a non-binding governing principle for the commercial use of personal information.
What is internet privacy?
What one can share or reveal about someone else on internet, is the simplest definition of Internet Privacy.
Why Privacy is important on internet?
Internet crime earns more than $105 billion per year. In United States there were 275,684 numbers of complaints of internet fraud filed during last year This all relates to what information we knowingly or unknowingly sharing with others on internet, others can be an individual or a website we choose to register.
What is Facebook Privacy?
It is a legal document of facebook where they describe in detail their terms and ways to control, manage, show or share user’s privacy or personal information to other users, third party, application developers and advertisers.
It also gives some control to user itself to control his or her privacy on facebook via Privacy Settings.
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What is Cookie?
When you visit a particular website, tried to register or login in it. A web server of that site you visited will send a piece of information to your browser and it saves it. That information is nothing but a text strings, generally a username. This is called cookie. So next time when you visit that same website and tries to login, your browser will send back that ID to the server and you will be recognized by the information you added in your last visit.
Why websites share user personal information to others?
Websites sometimes or I will say most of the times share at least some information of their user to third parties like a company or organization. They need data of user information to research, plan or projects either non profit or commercial. To sale or promote product, services and offers.
This gives enough reason to not-to-ignore privacy policies and privacy settings. It is matter of your personal, very personal information.
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