Social Networking, a way of life

This is the spot where I put some interesting thing to pull your attention about Facebook, but do I even have to bother?
…but for those of you that are socially ignorant, Facebook is the most visited social networking site in the world, with over 500 million active users as of July 2010. It provides you with the ability to constantly “exploit” yourself to the world. You can also add photos, videos, you can even have your own virtual farm!
Does Facebook have enough privacy? This is a debate that has been thrown around since Facebook was founded. Even when the “prototype” for Facebook, “Facemash”, was founded in Mark Zuckerberg’s dorm room in 2003, he was heavily criticized for taking the privacy away from people. Only, then it was attacking female students at Harvard, not one out of 14 people on the planet.
Privacy is what Facebook revolves around. People are always complaining that Facebook makes you too open. You the Facebook user have too much information out on the Internet now you are complaining that the site needs to keep things more private.
Some people just cannot do this. They think that its Facebook’s fault that their info is posted all over the Internet. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that you put it up in the first place. If people do not want their information up on the Internet, Do not post it at all.
The problem is that people are blaming Facebook too much for their privacy faults. Facebook gives you the option to keep things private, but people are too lazy to do that though. When a problem finally arrives, they blame Facebook for keeping things out in the open. This is their own fault. I have ten different privacy settings on my profile, so I can choose who, and who cannot, see my posts.
Facebook has been called a terrible site by many groups (The Associated Press, The Boston Globe ). People have even created websites that are solely there to promote Quitting Facebook. (http://quitfacebook.com/)

-Tory Guardino