Facebook, like most social networking sites, may slowly fall out due to a decrease in popularity. As a result, they introduced “timeline”. Timeline allows users to load their life histories onto the internet in order to bind them in. Their tactic has caused a raise in monthly users during the first quarter.

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However, with the addition of timeline, there seems to have caused a “security breach”. Users are complaining that their personal messages have started to appear on their Facebook wall. Up until now, there is no solid evidence whatsoever that the messages were private. “Facebook is satisfied that there has been no breach of user privacy.” Users are still upset because they are the ones who are able to tell old wall posts from messages. The underlying truth is that Facebook’s users are upset and believe Facebook has leaked their private messages. Consumers are always right.

In order to increase revenue, Facebook is continuing to come up with new innovative ideas. Timeline is mandatory and most users have already automatically switched over. This new innovative addition is also costing many users’ private messages being leaked, whether Facebook admits it or not.

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