Globe and mail news article in regards to facebook

Click on link to read article Facebook's Photo-Tagging tweaks rig the game against privacy

• Do you have a facebook account? Are you a frequent user of facebook?

Yes i do have a facebook account but i am not a frequent user of facebook.

• Please list the issues and new messages you learn from this article.

I learned that facebook have made it now more difficult to untag yourself when you friend or someone tags you in a photo that you don't want to be tagged in, it also facebook is also eager for more tags that in other countries it has implemented a facial-recognition system that recognizes my friends faces and does the work for you. Facebook says its not planning to implement the system in Canada.

• How does the facebook's photo-tagging feature work? (If you dont have a facebook account, you could answer the questions after the classroom discussion)

If my facebook friend have a photo of me and he/she would like to share it on my wall so myself along with all my friends can see all that friend have to do is to click tag an add my name and that picture will then be placed on my facebook page.

• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using the photo-tagging feature?

The advantages of using photo-tagging feature on facebook is sharing your fun time of to friends, family and love ones.Your friends/Family can also tag you photos from school, graduation and sporting events of yourself or group that you maybe interested in but didn't have before.

 Some disadvantages are that  your friends/family may tag you in inappropriate pictures that you may not even be interested in like polites issues and immoral activities, sometimes your friend may find a picture when you were younger and drunk or some races pictures.

• Do you understand facebook's purpose of setting up the complicated procedure to remove the tagged pictures?

Facebook likes it when people tag photos because it's good for business, the more internal links the site contains is the more people clicks and the more time people spend on the site, the more information is gathered about the users. 

• What are the future improvements that facebook could do to protect the user's privacy?

Facebook can give the users an option to accept or decline being tagged in specific photos before its tagged on their walls in that way the user have more privacy and freedom of choice.

• Based on the issue the article was talking about, will you stop or avoid using facebook if you have your colleagues on your friends list?

I will not stop using facebook because of the issues mentioned in the above article and the reason i say this issue may not affect me is because i am a mature young adult an always behave in a presentable manner, my friends will know what i stand for an what i will not tolerate an will not tag me in any in appropriate pictures.

• Please leave any opinions you think about this article or the issues about internet privacy.

I found this article was very interesting and the issues were very clear, I do hope that some of my peers would share this article with someone that may need some of this information in regard to photo-tagging and facebook privacy.