Facebook Ethics Report On Social Networking

The privacy of human being has drastically changed with the advent of internet. On a scale of 1 to 10, the privacy of an internet user is a -1 or may be less. Social Networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc are mainly responsible for this privacy leakage. This short paper is dedicated to review the change of privacy policy by Facebook on December 2009 and its impact on public privacy and security.

Acquisti and Gross point out that the unprecedented growth of online social networks including but not limited to Facebook and MySpace has brought with itself serious security and privacy concerns. In this particular study, the authors found out that privacy issues do not discourage individuals from being members of the network. Further, the authors also found out that even individuals who happen to be rather concerned about their privacy reveal a great deal of their personal information after joining the network. This study is highly relevant to my research as it clearly demonstrates that individuals do not take privacy issues seriously on joining Facebook. As the authors point out, the study in this case secured its support from the "CMU Berkman Faculty Development Fund, CMU CyLab and the Data Privacy Laboratory." Thus in addition to being relevant, the study can also be regarded credible.

The purpose of this literary review is to enlighten my viewers of the importance of the ethical idea of companies crossing the lines of business with your personal life, when involving social media accounts. Most of my research has operated from the ATU library using the find it tool. Furthermost, the researched information use was from peer-reviewed research journal. I will discuss includes social media cons in the work environment, if it is ethical to get fired over a post, and laws that protect both parties. Social media includes an assortment of electronic communications—most commonly networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, Pinterest, Instagram, and the likes thereof. Social media also covers all forms of blogs, including Twitter (a micro-blog), wikis, online journals, diaries, personal newsletters, and World of Warfare and YouTube also are included under the umbrella term of social media (Lieber 2011).

In the article Ethics and social media (2014, Vol 27(4)), written by Dr. Constance Milton, the author discusses how to choose the proper media applications for nurses since they are bonded by obligations and liabilities toward human kind dignity.

This company’s business model is about collecting personal information. The personal information should be kept in secret and not given or sold to a third party. Facebook is one of the company that gather detailed personal data about its users giving them up on a platter to advertisers (Farrell 2015). Moreover, not only the advertisers want the data, but the NSA and other U.S. security agencies as well. They use the information for surveillance and other purposes which it is a violation of the right for privacy.

Facebook is the world’s largest social media platform. More than two billion people use Facebook to connect with family and friends. Since there is a prodigious amount of users on this site, it is very crucial for this company to operate successfully because more than two billion people will be affected by any complications. Facebook was recently in the hot seat for the misuse of data of 50 million of their users. The personal data of their users were stored in a personality quiz app which was ultimately passed to Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica is a British political firm that aids the electoral process.

Facebook is a well know social networking site that has taken all over the world with over 500 million people using the site. Social networking sites such as Facebook share information about the user over the Internet, where it can be freely accessed by anyone. This is where issues of privacy to the individual arise. As

In the article ‘The Right to Privacy is Not a Right to Facebook’, Castro (2010, p.1) suggests that there is a growing concern in the content of the social media companies' privacy policy as these companies have been observed to be using their users' private data to provide suggestion products and services to their consumers. While this allows companies such as Facebook and Google to tailor their services to their consumers' preference and need better, Privacy Fundamentalists argue that such targeted marketing has already violated users' privacy rights by exposing private data. In the view of whether companies should be allowed to access the data, the author suggests that it is purely up to FTC to decide whether to conduct legal action in checking

One perspective is that the “Arab Spring” may refer as “Twitter Revolution” or “Facebook revolution”. Social media played a vital role to reshape the politics of “Middle East”. The impact of this change was very crucial for the governments. The lash back of this change was different in different countries. In “Tunisia” and “Egypt” government regimes did not have any social media base and they could not estimate the impact of social media in the society. In “Tunisia” and in “Egypt” nine out ten people responded to a poll conducted by the “facebook” to organise the protest. Finally its ended up with a regime change democracy won through social media

Facebook was used to agent networks between groups that were disconnect previously, to share information about shared complaints beyond the little community of activist leaders, and to reach out to the whole world to show there is a demonstration going on. Social media, particularly Facebook, assisted a large group of people for civic engagement and eventually political change, particularly by extending towards the unemployment of the country (Lim, 2012). Facebook was not the only or even the most important component of information of political mobilization or civic engagement, which eventually led to the fall of Mubarak, but it fit well with other information networks that were beyond the control of the authoritarian government (Lim, 2012).

Facebook began in February 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and his collegiate comrades at Harvard University. Rapidly expanding, Facebook’s exponential growth led to its membership growing to over one billion users, as of September 2012. One would imagine that with such growth would come more opportunities for challenges to arise: one of these challenges being users and their rights to privacy. As part of Facebook’s advertising system, their primary means of generating revenue, Beacon sent data from other companies and websites to Facebook. Following a lawsuit, Beacon then changed to accommodate these requests. On December 5, 2007, Facebook declared it would allow users to choose not to participate in Beacon in

According to the data from Arab Social Media Report 2011 by Mourtada and Salem, the number of social media usage increased immensely during the Arab Spring period from January 1 to March 30. The number of Facebook users in the Arab nations has almost doubled since the same time, up from 14,791,972 (as of April 2010) to 27,711,503 (as of April 2011) (Mourtada and Salem 9). Similarly, at the first three months of 2011, the number of tweets increased from 55 million to 155 million a day (Mourtada and Salem 15). The Arab Spring was a series of democratic revolutions in the Middle East that cause of the governmental change in some Arab countries. During the Arab Spring, four of the world 's authoritarian leaders - Zine El Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia, Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak of Egypt, Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen, and Muammar Gaddafi of Libya - were ousted after decades in power (Howard and Hussain 3). Social media have played not just an important role, but also an effective tool that cause of the success of the Arab Spring and beyond. In order to get an effective and quick uprising as the Arab Spring, activists used social media to disseminate their democratic thoughts, mobilize protesters, and organize their activities.

Photos from a lively party, intricate inside jokes, instant and personalized communication -- someone’s life and personality neatly tucked away in the cyber-universe. With the quiet tapping of keys and simple clicks of a mouse, a complex and ever expanding social world thrives inside the digital world of the Internet. Social networking sites have grown immensely as more people take advantage of the Internet to connect with friends and expand their social horizons. Chat features of these social networking sites have become popular as well, giving users the ability to converse instantly and intimately with their friends. But this broadening of social horizons in general has also given radical organizations the medium to widen their agenda.

As of 2015, Facebook and Twitter have a total of 1.49 billion and 304 million active users respectively. This rapid rise and popularity of social media has allowed for the dispersion of ideas quickly and effectively on a global scale; in such a way that is unparalleled to any time in history. Therefore, the rise of social media has created a new, immensely powerful form of Civil Society Two. A form that has the ability to create political unrest and outright revolution in the modern states. In reference to the modern state, authoritarian regimes are governments where the citizens have fewer individual rights, and therefore discontent is popular among the masses. They are an apt example of the political power of social media. In the 21st century, social media has the power to raise and topple authoritarian regimes, effectively becoming a new mode to facilitate political revolutions. Ways in which social media has been demonstrated in authoritarian governments are in the Arab Spring, which led to the downfall of many non-democratic regimes, and conversely, in its role in the rise of ISIS, one of the greatest terrorist organizations of modern times.

Egypt’s use of Internet and social networks increased by 200% in the last 2 years and all the political analysts agree that the strongest force now for marketing, mobilizing and impacting people is through social media. Egypt has almost 11 million users of Facebook in March 2012 compared with 5 million users in January 2011, which makes a percentage of 13.8% of all population are on Facebook. Egypt is ranked the number 20 of all countries in the world that has Facebook users. (www.socialbakers.com)