information, credit card information. we know about wikileaks. we also know how it affects people when sites are hacked for passwords. there s passive hacking, which is much more problematic. all the social media sites that we use, that we think are free start to sell a lot of information about us. so we are share information. the social media sites sell either our personal information or descriptions about us that are not exactly personally identifiable to us to third parties. then those third parties match them up with other information we give to other sites. each of us have the nsa level dossier that is very detailed about aur lives. you need to take control over you passwords. i would not suggest a privacy setting on any social networking site really gives you protection from geo location or from any
simple. they re not familiar with the privacy setting and some because a younger generation is used to putting more stuff out there. what s happened now, it s become easier for others. this could be a good thing or bad thing for you. to see a lot of your history with people. exactly. you might have told ali something a year ago that you don t even remember saying, but may not those changes to facebook. when you go to facebook go on to the site. click on it. look at your privacy settings. get a feel for this new thing. do not assume that all is well. this might be something that suits you tremendously. you might really like it. it might be something that doesn t suit you. check your privacy settings. a sad, shocking story out of the new york area. 16-year-old thomas adams loved baseball. he was a catcher. been playing since 9 years old. practicing with his school at a high school gymnasium over the weekend when a pitch hit him in the chest. he was wearing protective gear includi
why did they do it? is it aesthetics? it looks a lot nicer. at the top you have recently tagged photos. that looks nice. really this is me thinking, i think it s right. this design is about information. facebook wants more information from you. so right at the top. look at the snapshot. as soon as you come to my profile, if you re friends with me, i m a producer at cnn, i went to nyu, i live in atlanta, georgia. this was stuff that was buried before in the info section. now it s right at the top of your profile. that s interesting because a lot of people didn t fill that out before. and now it s sort of an incentive for you to fill out that information and give the data to facebook because it s the first thing people see when they come to your page. this is the kind of thing that we can all customize. it s the nice thing about facebook is if a user has power and we can change some things around, right? right. and now the privacy settings are all the same. so whatever the privacy
congressmen have some questions they want to ask mark zuckerberg. if i m a facebook user, should i be worried? well, this all started with a wall street journal investigation and they found that all ten of the top ten most popular applications transmit your unique user i.d. to at least 25 marketing and advertising firms. from there those firms compile your likes and dislikes and see what you do. three of those applications also transmit your friends i.d.s and this happens no matter what privacy setting you have it on. applications are very important to facebook. this is how you to come there first. the suggestion that passing off your user i.d. to another company constitutes a breach is curious, at best. so, in other words, they re saying they don t feel like this is a breach of privacy. chris, i guess the bottom line is, if you re comfortable with people following you from facebook to other places, you
news, we ve considers the dispute closed for years and we wish them well in their future endeavors. they re saying we stole the facebook i know what it says. did we? reporter: the film is it latest in an onslaught of bad pr. the the social network the movie facebook doesn t want you to see. last year there was a public outcry when the site changed its privacy setting, instant messages reported this year allegedly show a young zuckerberg mocking his users for submitting personal information saying, quote, they trust me and then calling them dumb. mark zuckerberg is known to be aloof and arrogant and avoids big, public social situations. he seems to keep to himself. he s pretty awkward. reporter: ironically the man described as socially awkward is today s king of social media. facebook has 500 million users, 1 out of every 14 people in the