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There is a website that has been steadily growing in popularity among college age students in the past 5 years. You might have heard of it, they call it facebook. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t check mine at least once, and I’m sure most Miami Students do the same. The big news about facebook this week was the changes in the terms of use. They changed the terms to say that anything and everything a person posts on facebook belongs to them. While the press release was written in vague language, internet gatekeepers picked up on it. This change caused a huge uproar in the blogosphere. I know I read about the changes on Perez Hilton.com, who was telling his readers to boycott the website. On Tuesday the 17th, Mark Zuckerberg posted a retraction of the new terms of use.
As frequent users of facebook, we have come to expect certain things from the website. The smallest change can incite hundreds of thousands of people joining groups to reverse the change. Earlier in the school year, facebook changed the format to “new facebook” and there were a lot of people unhappy. But in the end, no one really boycotted because how we look at pictures or write out our status’s really isn’t that big of a deal. Privacy is another story though. People take their privacy very seriously, and the new facebook terms interfered. Privacy on facebook is very important for a lot of people. When I was in high school, boys on the basketball team posted pictures of themselves drinking and got in trouble with the school. 10 boys ended up being suspended from the team for 2 weeks and missed the play-offs. There were lawyers and court cases involved and it was very messy. So privacy on facebook is very important and maintaining it for some is very essential.