Small Corner

While skimming through my colleagues’ marketing blogs for inspiration for my new entry, I found MANY interesting issues; but one particular entry from Chris Woo’s blog was especially of a concern to me.

Chris wrote an entry regarding the access of information and privacy on Facebook, one of the largest online social networking site. Many might argue that Facebook “gives no privacy”, but regarding the information each users post on their profile, I think Facebook has done a decent job with the privacy issue. The online phenomenal has set privacy settings to protect each user by allowing users to choose whom can access their wall/profile and the ability to selectively filter information to the public on their own preference. So you can’t say “Facebook gives me no privacy”, it is you who chose to put yourself voluntarily up in public.

However I too have no idea to what extend does Facebook have access to each users’ private information either. For all we know they could sell valuable informations regarding our private behaviors to other companies in exchange for massive amounts of money.

Internet is beneficial to many of of us but to a certain extend, there is a cost. We, the consumers, access the internet based on our own perception of the risks involved. (Risk averse/risk neutral/risk loving.)

I am taking a risk right now…