Since a few weeks your Facebook account is not just a page with your latest thoughts and agricultural transactions. I remember visiting People magazine’s website, because I was conducting research for a class on movie marketing. The article I stumbled upon ( http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20363861,00.html#facebook_comment)
dealt with a 19 year old lead of the movie “Kick Ass” fathering his 43 year old fiance an being a stepdad to her 13 and 3 year old daughters.
Without further elaborating on the content, I found the article could have used some further proofreading and wanted to comment.
Once I scrolled down, I realized that I am already logged in over my Facebook profile.
That really caught me by surprise. I understand that Facebook is widely used, but I don’t think that connecting profiles to websites is serving our privacy.
On the contrary, it enable the participating websites to get a better idea of our individualized interests, opinions and by lack of attention on the side of the user probably also other things, like socioeconomic status, relatives etc.
How do you feel about your profile being connected to other websites?
Similarly, someone told me that Facebook owns all content (ie pictures, videos) posted on the site. So news outlets, etc., can buy photos from Facebook and use them to accompany their stories!
I can’t find a definite answer to as to whether this actually happens, but my source says she did it for the newspaper she worked for.
Several (amateur and professional) photographers I know refuse to post their work for facebook.
oh wow Taylor, I did not realize Facebook would be able to sell your own posted pictures-have there been any cases that they have done so though?
JP– i’m a little confused… are you sure that you just weren’t logged in to facebook while you were navigating the site??
and in response to the comments, even though it doesnt seem right for facebook to be able to use others’ pictures and work, there isn’t much they can do… check out number 4 on this site:
http://www.legalandrew.com/2007/07/21/facebook-and-the-law-8-things-to-know/
Alena, what do you mean by just not logged in? I was logged in on Facebook, but the fact that even people magazine and other major websites now access Facebook data makes me wonder how safe my information really is.