Facebook no longer private

Facebook is a social networking site used by high school and college students to keep in touch with friends they go to school with and friends at other schools. You also can meet people with similar likes and interests at other schools around the country. It has been considered more private than the more popular social networking site called MySpace. However, Facebook Inc. has decided to allow non-registered guests to be able to view profiles of members without actually providing your information to become a member. This opens the risk of people being able to get personal information about individuals registered on the Facebook site. Students using this service need to make sure and be careful about information they post since even more individuals will have easier access to whatever members post about themselves. Even scarier is the fact that Facebook Inc. engineer Philip Fung states that in the coming weeks not only will non members be able to access information they will be making profiles searchable through search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Individuals must be aware of these new changes and might want to consider changing their privacy settings that will make their profiles not searchable to everyone. Facebook feels that these new imp limitations will allow for a greater amount of people to reunite and make Facebook a larger community by the assumption that if people search and find others they know they will decide to join the Facebook population.

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