Facebook Privacy Issues

In 2012, Facebook pulled the plug on community voting which caused their users to question whether or not the social media site was a site that they wanted to be directly connected with. Although not even half of Facebook users voted on the new privacy changes in December of 2012, 88 percent of those that did vote, voted AGAINST the privacy changes. Facebook was aware of these results and instead of listening to their consumers, they ignored them and took away their rights to vote. 

Many Facebook users are confused with the continuously changing privacy settings because they are written in terms they do not understand. Luckily, for the social media consumers, Facebook has altered the wording in the setting in hope that they will understand the policies better than they have in the past. The continuous changes have made Facebook users disappointed and annoyed with the site. Allowing users only partial control of how their personal information is displayed to other on the site is not considered pro-privacy, by any means. 

Privacy issues and terms of service continue to be of much concern to consumers and users of various social media sites. The increasing number of court cases that are filed because of personal information being leaked to employers or other organizations have cause outrage among the Facebook users. This issue is something that should be solved immediately and should be a fairly reasonable issue to be resolved but instead, social media sites like Facebook try to increase the amount of income they are making through the website, no matter the consequences it has on their customers.