Facebook

"Facebook is a social networking website that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Since September 2006, anyone over the age of 13 with a valid e-mail address can become a Facebook user. Facebook's target audience is more for an adult demographic than a youth demographic. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by workplace, school, or college. The website's name stems from the colloquial name of books given to students at the start of the academic year by university administrations in the US with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better"

reference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook

As we can see, facebook admin allowed kids at the age of 13 to have an account at facebook. Kids at this age are easy to be manipulated and easy to trust others. Facebook also allowed to update personal detail like name, age, hometown and event hp number. From my perspective, kids at this age doesnt know anything about the important of not sharing private information. They only know to have fun, get new friend wtihout thinking how old the person can be, how dangerous they can be.

From my experience, i been introduce to Myspace since im 13. I upload my picture, give my detail and adding friend around the world. But i got lots of friend request from someone that far older then me, even 10 years older then me. How scary is that? An adult trying to befriend to a kids? There nothing we, as an adult, can think what in the world they thinking in their mind accept doing something really bad or planning something bad.

One more thing for me, that really odd is the survey,game or service that facebook offer for their user. Survey about friend? about ourself. Dont you thing facebook is trying to get our personal detail, in a very smart way? I keep thinking about this and it make me wonder, why on earth should facebook do something like this.

Think again. Maybe we already exposed so much thing about ourself on the internet. Things getting really danger nowdays.

think before you post.

Faiz Hafizin