Friday 24 October 2014

NDM 18

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/11184072/Facebook-will-now-let-you-post-anonymously.html
Facebook will now let you post anonymously

  • Android and desktop versions of Rooms will be released in the future
  • Every post you share, every friend you make, and every link you follow is tracked, recorded, and converted into data
  • The advert-free site claims it is getting 40,000 requests an hour from users wanting to sign up
  • A "room" is made up of photos and posts on a single topic chosen by the person who set it up.
  • "There is a good reason in a lot of situations why you don't want people to know who you are and it's not because of something sketchy. We want to give people flexibility because that's what they want."

Close up of a woman hand holding an iPad checking her Facebook page
Facebook has released a new app that lets people use its service anonymously. The social network unveiled 'Rooms' on Thursday, a standalone mobile app for iOS that lets users interact on Facebook without using their real names. The aim is for people to feel free to discuss sensitive issues, when normally they would not be comfortable doing so. A "room" is made up of photos and posts on a single topic chosen by the person who set it up. That person can then invite others to join the room, and all can post anonymously. Colours, icons and cover photos for the room can also be modified to suit the creator's tastes.

In my opinion I think that this new application that doesn't promote adverts on its website will be a success. Over the past years users have come to the conclusion not to trust facebook as they sell personal information to third parties purely for profitable reasons. Ever since twitter has evolved a considerable amount of users have reduced or completely deactivated their account due to privacy issues. Many paedophiles targeted young teens by pretending to be another person, using false identity to get closer to the target and then either kidnap or rape the user. This outrage happened frequently in mid 2010 when users started privatising their pictures and personal information from the public

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