My diary 23/9/2013 - week 15

Today is the last day to study the critical reading class with Aj.Usaa Noytim before the examination. Today we continued study about Reading News Articles from last week. She asked us to share the ideas and answer the questions about "Facebook to share your info for money" on the white board for 6 questions. This is my answers and my ideas from the questions.
1. how many users does Facebook have?
Facebook has over 400 million users.

2.  With what websites has Facebook recently begun sharing users’ personal profile information?

Facebook has recently begun to share information with Pandora and Yelp.

3.  What other changes has Facebook recently made to the website?

Facebook made it so that they could sell information about a user even if that information was thought to be private by the user. Facebook has also begun to be included on other websites.

4.  Even if you block information shared from your site, how could your personal information still be made public?

The information could still be shared from a friend's account.

5.  Do you think Facebook should automatically share your info, and only refrain from doing so if you know about it and go into your settings to opt out?  Explain your answer.

Facebook should not automatically share information because many people do not know that Facebook will share their information and the user should know that information will be shared before it is shared to keep the privacy of the user. Facebook can still make money by displaying targeted advertisements on its own website without having to share the information with other companies or people.

6.  This article states “Facebook wants to make money by selling user information.”  Do you think that is their motive for sharing your info, or is it as Facebook stated, to assist users by "promot[ing] social activity" by sharing your info? Explain your answer.

Facebook's motivation for sharing information is based on making money. Facebook can sell the personal information of its users to companies which will use it for marketing. All for-profit companies exist only to make money. In addition, if Facebook does intend to “promote social activity”, then they will also make money by enhancing the features of their service and attracting new users.

And the last thing for this class Aj.Usaa told us the score we got from the quizzes and checked the work  assignments for someone who still not send them yet. She asked us about the date we can do the exam for the critical reading subject and finished class. I think this lesson was very good and easy to understand. I can apply how to read the article with other subjects.