Privacy Problems on Facebook

The dictionary.reference.com website defines Privacy as the state of being free from intrusion or disturbance in one's private life or affairs: the right to privacy, but with social networks it seems this definition does not stand for what it means, several privacy activists have accused some social networks especially facebook of recklessly exposing users data.

With developers having access to the Facebook API in order to develop applications on the facebook platform, researchers have claimed that Facebook is exposing too much of users data to developers which is infringing on people privacy. Some people have claimed that in using these applications their data is not only what is accessible to developers but their friends data too. Can read more about the privacy problem on Facebook here

This cartoon depict what users experience with using applications on facebook.

Social Network Statistics

The Use of Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter and My Space has grown tremendously over the last decade, some statistics are staggering...

The statistics several years ago compared to now is quite tremendous, some statistics say that now more than four in five US online adults use social media at least once a month. This growth has been attributed to the Web 2.0 technology that has made information sharing a lot easier.

Some statistics are listed below Gender Statistics, Age Statistics, Demographic Statistics

Additional statistics from Nielsen Online shows that: Social networks and blogs are now the 4th most popular online activity ahead of personal email, Member communities are visited by 67% of the global online population, time spent is growing at 3 times the overall internet rate, accounting for almost 10% of all internet time, you can read more here