I just read an interesting article about recent studies coming out about Facebook privacy settings. There has been a lot of concern over Facebook’s privacy settings for the last couple of months. The studies show that they are just continuing to rise. The study breaks it down into all the different types of privacy settings and whatever needs protecting. With Facebook being so popular and having that many users its hard to disagree that everyone needs privacy settings that will control what people see and that will actually work. Users don’t want to be uncomfortable on their own Facebook. Here is what I thought was important:
Consumer Report’s annual State of the Net study found that people are increasingly concerned with their privacy on Facebook. The report breaks down social privacy into a handful of categories: over-sharing by users, underuse of privacy controls, over-collection of data, over-sharing of data by apps and cyberbullying or harassment.
2,002 online households were surveyed, including 1,340 Facebook users. Based on those numbers, Consumer Reports extrapolated its results upon the rest of Facebook’s 188 million North American users.
I hope that this insert was able to reinforce. For more on Facebook, the rise of the privacy concerns, and what Facebook plans on doing about it, click here.
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