Face-ing privacy concerns
February 9th, 2009
Sinead gets chatty about Facebook and its privacy/private lives pitfalls.
Today is Facebook’s fifth birthday. With over nine million users, there is plenty to celebrate.
I have never been a fan and was interested to hear the views of Southern FM’s & Sussex radio listeners today.
One user was advising others not to add people they don’t know. He said he made this mistake and suffered written abuse and threats towards his wife.
He was absolutely shocked as he had never met this person before and was worried that the user would have access to his personal information and thus be able to see where he lives.
The man also advised not to give away too much information on your profile page in the first instance.
Another radio listener revealed that after seven months of corresponding with another user, she is now going to travel half way round the world and said that “he is the man that I am going to marry.”
A gentleman caller informed us that he accepted an invitation to his Facebook friend to join her in the US for a week, whilst her fiancée was out of town. He thanked Facebook for providing him with the best week of his life. (So is Facebook helping people cheat and commit adultery?)
I know it is supposed to be a social website but how social and familiar are we supposed to get..
