Week 10 Framing Questions

Do kids really need SNSs? There are SNSs out there that are aimed at young children. There’s no way they  could possible need this when they can barely use a computer. Are parents monitoring their children on these sites or just letting them run wild?

Is it ethical for Facebook to make their privacy settings difficult to use? I assume a site as large as Facebook has done qualitative and quantitative usability testing… and I assume they know the difficulty users incur attempting to change settings. Is it on purpose?

Will Facebook be standard practice in the future? Will privacy concerns eventually fade away, Facebook being sort of a new interactive phone book? If you don’t want someone to be able to search or see you on Facebook, there are settings that allow that, sort of like an unlisted number. Is using the internet period free license to access our usage data the way ads track our usage and advertise accordingly? Is it really just a faster, more intensive version of the mail and mass advertising?