Privacy to me is very important when using social media such as Facebook. The idea that Facebook has the right to do whatever they want with my content is straight up bizarre. Why do they need it and what are they doing with it? Personally I am not as much as concerned as others should be. I think privacy starts with the individuals initial concern when creating an account on social networks like Facebook.
With Facebook, I would never post a bunch of pictures of myself doing wild things like some crazy night out in Vegas or that one to many beers picture. It’s that type of content found on Facebook that could possibly come back to haunt you in the future. As for sensitive information like my phone number, e-mail address and all that stuff, I’d never post that information for anyone to see. When it comes to social media, the user has to protect themselves.
Like many other social networks, the terms of service agreement are listed before you create an account, but who reads them anyways. For many of us, we scroll down as quickly as possible and hit the agree button with no hesitation. People always skip over the terms of service agreement. No one wants to read the agreement because it can be over-complicating to understand. Plus the terms can be like 4 pages of super fine print. Typically if everyone else has signed up for it (friends and such) then we sign up with no hesitation.
After Google searching myself I found one million one hundred and sixty thousand results under my name. Such results included the I Hate Josh Thomas Club, The Man In the box written by Josh Thomas, and a video of Josh Thomas singing to his dog. Fortunately for me, none of these search results have anything to do with me. Once I graduate college and start working in the field building a stronger portfolio, I’d obviously want my name to show up at the top of a search. For now, I’m cool with it not being there.
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