Facebook users’ privacy expectations are naive and disingenuous
The object of Facebook is to connect members to their “friends,” to provide a format to share and expose the most intimate details of their lives. Facebook members post their photos and videos. They lament about romances. They post recipes and tout products they use and companies they favor. When Facebook members joined, did they really think “their” information was not going to be shared/used by Facebook? Privacy was never promised. The entire premise of Facebook epitomizes the opposite. Surely Facebook members did not think membership was free, that Facebook stock magically had monetary value. Facebook was selling you, the members, to advertisers. With that fact recently exposed, some Facebook members are upset, which I find to be disingenuous.
BECKY SMITH, ROSWELL
Henry Cotten’s recollection (“For MLK funeral, some Georgia Tech students played a key role,” AJC, April 9) reminded me of another event during the King funeral in the spring of 1968. My wife Susan and I were a new faculty couple at Agnes Scott College when we received a call asking if we would coordinate efforts to put up out-of-town visitors. We got busy calling faculty families we hardly knew to volunteer empty beds in their homes. Then we and some students went to the SCLC headquarters for instructions about where to go at the airport to collect visitors, to drive them to the homes of cooperating faculty. At the time, the whole experience was quite intense because it was so busy. Only later did I reflect on what we all did to face up to the national tragedy, with a great sense of pride in our city and in our college.
RICHARD D. PARRY, DECATUR
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