Facebook Fiasco
It seems like Facebook is learning a very hard lesson. Recently they decided to update and change their content policy. I guess they assumed no one would be paying attention. Click the highlighted link for the complete Business Week story.
The flip of them trying to keep and own user content in perpetuity is the plain fact that most users fail to understand that cyberspace is much, much different than printed and bound matter.
As a Facebook user, I am shocked about some of the content I see posted. After all, it’s so, so easy to pass along the information and you really don’t know who’s going to find the content — globally. While Facebook has since reverted back to their old policy, a degree of trust has likely been lost for all involved. Emerging media gives us communication options we could only dream of a few years ago, but it has also created challenges. As a rule, if you don’t want someone to see what your write, post, blog, email, text, comment on, even if you don’t think they’ll ever see it, don’t post it.
As Dylan sang, “The times they are a changing…” Keep that in mind.
