One of the issues that we touched on briefly in class at the first session was privacy. This is an issue that is close to my heart as it is this same issue that is stopping me from getting a Facebook account. I am concerned that many people will be keenly aware of what my family and I did, and are planning to do through my Facebook account if I should have one. Yes, I know that I can restrict the access to my account to friends only but my friends may include family, extended family, close friends, colleagues, ex-colleagues and casual friends. These different groups of friends will all be updated with the same information which I may or may not have intended for. Conflicts can occur through such equitable sharing of information. One such incident occurred when one of my friend's elderly relative came to know of her daughter's plan to migrate from a niece who had read about it on her daughter's Facebook account. This incident caused much unhappiness between mother and daughter. This is just one of the many possibilities of how things may go wrong despite the ability to restrict access of one's Facebook account. I do not even wish to think about the possible repercussions through an innocent sharing of my thoughts or my pictures on an open network, especially when I have little view of who is reading or looking at those pictures at a specific point in time.
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Tell me about news spreading over facebook. I guess facebook encourages the nosy neighbour syndrome where one can fish for information by reading one's profile. I had a cousin who actually questioned us on why he is not invited to our family gatherings. I mean it is a two-family affair, does it mean that we need the whole family tree coming along?? It is definitely not healthy, this nosy neighbour syndrome!! :p
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