Are you still on Facebook?

For the past couple of weeks, many people have been leaving Facebook due to many privacy issues. These issues have not been fixed by Mark Zuckerberg or any developers of Facebook. In their terms they say “We protect our users privacy and will never share any of their data”, I believe this to be true and due not give out personal information to other companies for a commission. Facebook is not sharing your data like a good company, although your privacy may be at stake with huge flaws in the Facebook privacy settings allowing your data to be taken and viewed without being “friended”. By default your privacy settings are OPEN, to have everyone on the internet view them. To change these settings you most go to your account settings tab, then privacy, and then to change them to your liking.

Last night, after being upset with my privacy and some users on Facebook, I chose to make the first step in leaving Facebook, disabling my account. By default you cannot delete your Facebook until after two weeks of thinking about it, within these two weeks you can recover your account at any time. This is a great feature to prevent users from deleting their account out of rage, but this feature lacks the option to delete your account until two weeks if your truly serious about leaving Facebook. Facebook has a survery asking “Why are you leaving Facebook?”. Facebook asks this so they can better their service like any other company wants to do. I understand privacy is a hard thing to fix in only a few weeks, but this has been a problem from monthes on end and has only gotten worse.

Facebook, you really need to get your act together before you lose most of your users whom are scared by their online life. Online privacy is a huge deal and Facebook needs to fix their privacy settings and who can view it. What would happen if your information was stolen or used for a phishing scam at the worst. This could happen to you next, at this point I suggest either two things to ALL users of Facebook. 1, either change your privacy settings immediately to strictly accepted friends. 2, to disable your Facebook account until Facebook pushes out a privacy update. Facebook please fix your privacy system before you keep losing your users, this is a bad business model.