Is privacy at stake on social networking websites?
About a year ago, Facebook had some 150 million total users and according to latest stats nearly 175 million users log in to Facebook daily now. The most popular social networking website in the world connects 400 million users worldwide with friends, acquaintances, and sometimes with complete strangers.
A network as huge as Facebook automatically becomes a soft target for the spammers, hackers and data traffickers. Social networking websites are criticized in the past for privacy concerns, advertising scripts, data mining, and violation of intellectual property rights. Has our desire to communicate easily with people online sacrificed our privacy on the Internet?
