Threat to our own privacy on Facebook

The article “On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You” was a great argument for this person to bring up in the newspaper. I think that the article definitely is working the argument through many different aspects such as the attitude and facts of what people express making their private lives known to friends. The author of this article starts off with much attitude about how Facebook cannot be very private if you open yourself up to that situation. For one example, if you do not know the person or haven’t been in contact with them for a very long time you should reject them because you never truly know who someone is through cyberspace.
This article is very believable in the sense that people use Facebook every day and share the most private feelings or information about where they are going, but they may be sharing it with the public or even people that they have become friends with that they do not know very well at all.
The author throughout the article proves her point to be true more and more. When she goes into detail about “terms of service,” she is right about Facebook basically owning us especially because most people do not actually read all of that information. With that part of the signing up for Facebook, there could be anything written in there that people just automatically agree with just to sign up with the program faster, so her point is very valid about a Facebook user not actually knowing their own privacy issues.
The different strategies used throughout were starting off with a strong attitude, opinions about if we are our own threat, and being able to distinguish between our public and private selves. This article was a very strong written one that really made the argument valid about us being our own threat to privacy.