Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, what next?

Plenty of ordinary people are fleeing Facebook because of the many concerns about eroding privacy on the beloved social networking site that is known by many simply as FB. Facebook has an estimated 400 million users, and when it went public in 2005, default privacy settings kept personal information out of the hands of people who were not users, in other words known as “friends,” on the website.



Recently, the default settings have turned the other way, putting more users’ information out there for the whole world to see. From what I understand, there is a concern that personal information will land in the wrong hands. Contact and interest data on Facebook profiles is being shared with partner sites such as Pandora, Microsoft, and more. It was later announced that the website had a new feature to ramp up security. So if you want to protect yourself on Facebook click Privacy Settings and make sure you adjust your privacy settings next to all 12 categories on the page. So with all this in mind, everyone is trying to get famous these days, they turn to Facebook and YouTube to promote themselves, regardless of privacy issues.

It's quiet disturbing the lengths that people will go to promote themselves. Is all that information necessary? I'm going to take a shower now, taking pictures of their dinner, going to work now, going to sleep now, showing off with basketball players, baseball players, you get the jist. Now, we even have a revamped MySpace back. Poor Myspace,  is trying to keep up with the times, however, this month, the site had less than 50 milllion visitors.

In today’s society computers have become an absolute necessity, from online banking to shopping, paying bills, online chatting, and web-surfing. Just about everything can be researched on the computer. The possibilities are simply endless! Unless you’ve just arrived from a long vacation from Mars, you’ve heard about the search engine “Google.” Curiosity seekers have used the term "I’ve googled him (or her).” Unless you don’t exist or are an underachiever, you probably won’t find a match.