Exercise 8 - CURRENT AWARENESS POST

Modern social media is amazing with nothing but a computer or a mobile phone individuals are now able to connect with each other half way across the world from each other with all this technology at our finger tips it some times hard to remember the down side to all this identity theft, cyber bullying ect

the article Facebook privacy settings: Who cares? Discusses the pros and cons of one of thew worlds moat well known social networking sites 

There have been multiple horror stories from this sight of stalking, bank account drainage or out of control parties

each time the website's administers are forces to put out a statement or an apology or even add new security precaution to try and protect certain careless users but is it really the fault of the website or do we simply have to be more aware of the dangers that this social networking poses in order to ovoid them in short the article say yes it is

it talks in depth about the privacy setting already in place on the sight and the kind of people that are making use of it describing things like internet familiarity, gender preferences (both in relation to the internet as a whole and face book it’s self) and fear as some of the motivators for seeking out more comprehensive security settings

This is a fascinating well researched piece aimed at administrators and users alike here’s a link read it for your selves