Facebook Daniel Lyons Analysis

In Daniel Lyons The High Price of Facebook, he states the issue of privacy. Facebook makes their money through selling personal information to advertisers Lyons argues that Facebook is not a free service and states "The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, and don’t realize they’re paying for it by giving up loads of personal information." (par. 2). Senior Vice President of communications, Elliot Scharge disagrees saying that their privacy changes are misunderstood "The company is simply making changes to improve the service it provides to users." (par.5). Some disagree with Lyons, Facebook user Robert Scoble adds "I wish Facebook were MORE open!!!" (par.7). Facebook was in trouble with Washington, Senators have asked that the privacy
Like myself, most members are unaware of the changes and possible motives for them. Lyons states "The fear is that people are being lured into Facebook with the promise of a fun, free service, and don't realized they're paying for it by giving up loads of personal information. " (par. 2). I believe that if more users were aware they might choose not to list their information. Facebook makes trying to hide your information very difficult Lyons informs the readers “ Now Facebook is going even further by insisting that unless you ingredient make things like your hometown, interest, and friends names public, then you can't list them at all.”(par.4) . Facebook's all or none approach is sketchy and would imply an ulterior motive. Most would assume that motive is profit, by selling our personal information such as where we work, the music we enjoy, where we went to school. All this information is sold to advertisers sending specific messages. Personally, I believe the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. There are risks to using social media so whatever you put out there is at risk of being seen by anyone