Facebookistan

This video is about the rapid growing social networking site, Facebook. Facebook allows people to meet new people, catch up with people from their past, and connect with friends. Facebook can be a great tool, but is it the safest. This video shows us how easy it is to access other peoples information. Facebook has become a not so private social networking website. Facebook requires a lot of personal information. They ask your full name, hometown, school, and workplace. This makes it easy for predators to find people. The segment where they talked to the girl who's rapist contacted her through Facebook was horrifying. It crazy to think she could actually have a conversation with him after what he did, she even felt closure. There are many other social networking sites that work in the same way, such as MySpace. There is also Twitter, which doesn't require a lot of personal information. I have also recently noticed the ads on the side of my homepage and all of the ads are pertaining to something I would like. This is where the filter bubbles come in. Facebook is starting to act like a robot, it can see when you are on or offline and see what your searching. Your privacy is gone. Facebookistan is a country that they made up that controls everything that happens. These segments all have one thing in common. It's that they show how easy it is to find people and they show how your privacy has been taken away.