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submit data online, do we question the safety of it? Are the people who we submit the data to taking all the right precautions to ensure that our data is kept secure?

These questions led me to a journal called ‘Facebook's Privacy Trainwreck' (Danah Boyd 2008) to read as secondary source research into the matter. This journal focuses on privacy concerns following the September 2006 launch of the ‘News Feed' feature on Facebook.

One of the main points that the journal focuses on is that when ‘News Feed' was launched in 2006, many Facebook users were very unhappy and felt that their privacy had been invaded. Boyd (2008 p.13) says ‘Upon logging in, users faced a start page that listed every act undertaken by their friends within the system'. ‘None of the information displayed through this feature was previously private per se, but by aggregating this information and displaying it in reverse chronological order, News Feeds made the material far more accessible and visible'. The reasons given by Boyd show why many Facebook users were unhappy with the changes. It meant that all of their actions, from uploading photographs to writing on another person's profile was reported to all of their ‘friends' via the news feed feature.

People generally have a small group of friends that would be interested with the daily happenings of each others lives, they would visit friends page's and check their recent activities and status posts; the information on these profiles was displayed for all to see, but it was not broadcast to people who really didn't want to know. The behaviour of the website and the way it addressed people's recent activities all changed in September 2006. The result of this change meant Facebook had to devise new privacy tools and options so that users could choose what information on their profile was shared to all their friends via the News Feed feature.

Writing about these new privacy tools, Boyd (2008 p.16) states ‘When the default is hyper-public, individuals are not simply able to choose what they wish to expose - they have to choose what they wish to hide'.

Why did Facebook choose to take everyone's information and display it in the news feed? The only way people could limit what was seen by all their friends was to change the news feed privacy options to not reveal certain information. I think Facebook should have structured their plan in totally the opposite way; by asking the user what information they would like displayed in the news feed, and as a consequence not to have this information displayed until these options had been addressed.

Even though this journal does not address all the key questions I mentioned above, it certainly provokes more questions regarding public privacy within Facebook.

By connecting my primary source and secondary source, it has helped me to understand the roles of both types of sources. I understand that secondary sources from academic journals can be trusted and are well structured; they are invaluable assets to academic research, and can pose questions on the subject that have not been addressed yet.

I have learnt there is a lot more be aware of regarding privacy on social networking sites. As the social networking scene grows, the questions that are raised about security and privacy grow with it.

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