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Facebook : The Website that has taken over the World! by Jaden Anderson

I am going to write my final project on facebook because I find it very interesting how much facebook has grown over the years and how much people are invested and involved with it. I don’t think you can walk down the street or walk to the halls of any high school and ask people, “ hey do you know about the website Facebook”? Some of the people may not have one but I would say that most everyone could tell you they have heard of it! I wanted to write about a different aspect of facebook that may not be so happy and fun to talk about but it’s real and kind of scary. I want to talk about how many predators and stalkers may get some of your personal information from your facebook and you may not even know it is happening. On Facebook you share your contact information and your personal photographs. A lot of people when they post on their facebook status it will say their where abouts and what location they are near. For some people they may not even look at this topic and really think twice until they do a little research of their own. I would suggest that when you create your profile on Facebook to go into your privacy settings and make your profile private. Which this does allow you to share information with only your friends. The only problem with this now is that Facebook recently changed everyones profiles to what is called a “timeline”. And at first facebook gave you the option to change your profile to the new timeline but the time ran out and everyones profiles were changed to the new timeline format even they did not change their privacy settings. This can make some people feel uneasy because your facebook is being changed without your permission! I recently read an article that shared that facebook gets more money for the more information that you expose about yourself. This is a fact that I had no idea! In my opinion why would someone want to profit on someone else maybe endangering themselves to the public?! Seems kind of crazy. I don’t want to write this article like I am so against facebook because I am not. For the all time I have been taking this class most of my comments about facebook were all positive. I thought I would kind of look at a different side of facebook because I found it interesting. http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/01/social-media-smartphones-stalking

[] As a parent I would have to say that facebook would be supervised. The part that’s scary is people can post photos of your kids on their own facebook and you have no control of what pictures go up and what they will be of. There have been cases of ex-boyfriends posting naked pictures of girlfriends after they break up and that to me is very scary. I don’t think facebook is the cause of crimes but a lot of times it makes it easier for people to gether information on people and go with it! []

There was a very sad case that I read an article on about a father in Australlia that posted on his facebook that he was going to kill his own daughter and he ended out stabbing her to death. This is such a sad horrible thing to see on the news I could not believe it.

I think that in my mind I guess I would just like to see that people are aware of these crimes that can happen and they are fully edjucated on what they need to do to be private and fully protected. I think that people and facebook createors have done quite a bit try to help people be aware of what they can do to protect themselves and their loved ones. Here are some tips I found on what you can do to for privacy. []

I think that now I will try to also shed some light on the good things facebook can also offer. I know from my own personal experience that facebook can help grow a business and market them very well. I have a friend who has started her own photography business and she was just planning on being a stay at home mom and taking pictures for people she knew in her little home town. She made a facebook page so after she had some of the photographs edited and ready for people to preview if they went to her page and liked it they would be able to view their photographs. Well this started to grow just by people looking at their friends pictures she had taken and they liked her page as well. This had such a domino effect they she decided to make a formal business name and now she has over 300 followers on her facebook page and she has photographed so many people she would have never met. I think that for something like this, facebook is a huge factor in why she is now doing weddings and she is making enough money to cover her own mortgage and she is very happy with all the business she has gotten.

I think that another way people can really get their business to grow on facebook is making contest such as when I receive 500 likes I will be giving away something or you will win something. That has enticed me to like pages I may have not looked at before because everyone wants to win something!

Another positive thing facebook has done; its an awesome way to keep up with people you may never see or ever talk to you. They may be old classmates or family you didn’t even know you had! I think that’s such a great thing to be able to reconnect with people and maybe even find some family member you did not know you had! I personally have searched my last name and became in contact with family I never knew I had. We have actually had a family reunion since facebook started and it had such a great turnout. People kept saying I am so glad that I found you on facebook and we are able to talk now! It makes a communication for some people way easier then they have ever thought it would be!

In conclusion just like with everything facebook has its positives and negatives and I feel if you are knowledgable on what you are signing up for that makes the whole difference!

REFERENCES: All my information I got was from articles on websites and I posted them all throughout my paper.