11/1/10

The privacy issue on social network sites: Facebook

Yuan Yuan Guo

Social network service is one of the most important technologies in Web 2.0, and has appealed hundreds of millions users. It not only provides a platform for users to express themselves, but help them socialize and build up communities online.

Social network site (SNS) usually requires users to offer personal information to join in. So, users may public their personal information such as name, age, occupation, and interests on SNS. The information like this may result in privacy issues, which will bring many inconveniences to users not only in the cyberspace but also in the real world.

In this paper, I will give an introduction of SNS and Facebook first. Then the concepts of privacy will be discussed. The main part will be focused on the description of current privacy issues on Facebook, and followed by the analysis of reasons and related theories. Simple management measures will be put forward in the final part.

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