Protest against Facebook continues Flow, Why?

VIVAnews - Facebook protest against the attitude that ignores the protection of personal privacy rights of users, the more bloom.

As quoted from the BBC website, the senators in the United States issued a public appeal for Facebook to rethink its policy of protecting the privacy of Facebook users.

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) even issued a petition addressed to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. ACLU asked Zuckerberg to provide a way to control all the information to share users through Facebook.

Official body which deals with consumer data protection is also called the Facebook privacy policy changes as a step that can not be accepted.

Glare was addressed to the most popular social networking Facebook because it did not enact privacy options in Opt. Thus, by default a default, users like posting information, photographs, and profile data will be viewed publicly.

Some time ago, Facebook released a new feature, Instant Personalization, also triggering the disclosure of personal data their users. Personal data such as email Facebook users can dijebol with cross site scripting through holes that were found from the site Yelp.

Besides the facebookers private conversation using chat box on Facebook also had leaked and can diintip by other users.

This sparked protests by Facebook users. Charlotte Crockett, a young 29 years old from the Netherlands, is one of more than one hundred thousand supporters of the group calling itself the "Facebook, Respect My Privacy!" made by the organization MoveOn.org. Facebook groups are urged to also make changes to the privacy policy.

"I am very concerned about people who do not understand how they should limit the information they share on facebook. My colleagues my age are still many who do not understand, even the example of my parents," said Crockett told abcnews.

To provoke the consciousness of the other facebookers to be more concerned with their personal data privacy rights, some Facebook users are also making a parody site called Youropenbook.

At the site, displayed post-funny and embarrassing posts from Facebook users, which they broadcast unconsciously because they are not doing correctly privacy settings.

For example, an employee who admitted posting truant from their job, or status that includes the recognition of an employee who work on his superiors, and others.

Even resistance berekskalasi Facebook users to boycott Facebook on the plan. Facebook users established Facebookprotest.com movement, plan to boycott Facebook on June 6, 2010.

On that day, the supporters of this motion asking Facebook users to not sign in to Facebook all day, to support their movement.

Your lack of response to unrest sensitifan Facebook Facebook users recently had triggered a wave of antipathy toward the movement's social networking site.

If someone typed the words "How to quit ..." on the Google search field, the search engine will automatically continue the series of words into a sentence "how to quit Facebook" on the top row.

That is because the number of searches on the internet about how to stop using Facebook. Underneath, the new search results to follow, like how to stop smoking, how to quit from the job, and how to stop consuming alcoholic beverages.

Later several influential like Peter Rojas facebookers, Matt Cutts, Leo Laporte, Cory Doctorow also choose to close their accounts on social networking pages. (Hs)