September 28, 2006
IT Blog #1
Facebook = Yahoo??
This week's blog entry will be examining the rumor of facebook selling their collective souls to yahoo for 1 Billion dollars. In fact, Li actually heard that facebook wanted TWO billion! See the link here:
Is this ethically and morally fair to do? All three of us on this team (Grant, Li, and Brett) are members of facebook, and all of us agree that this is a severe breach of personal security. All of us have personal information on the website that we dont necessarily feel everyone should be able to see. The networking in facebook allows between friends and colleages is unmatched by many other competitors, but is it right for the authors of facebook to exploit us to unknown people for a profit?
Lets face it, this type of information availability is rare. Facebook has gained steam over the last few years and people will pay top dollars to be able to reach that many students. Networking is HUGE, and facebook has a lot of it.
If you don't know exactly what facebook is, it is essentially a networking website much like myspace where you can create a personal profile and stay connected with past friends as well as have information handy on current friends (i.e. cell phone #, address, etc.). It has helped me (Grant) personally get quick information to help me find people I need to talk to as well as make great connections through people at the University of Michigan. Unfortunately, even though it began as a very innocent, fun, new site, it has undergone many numerous changes lately. The biggest change occured just recently, when facebook announced the allowing of anyone to join in the "fun." In the past it had only allowed university and high school students to join.
What do we see happening? Well, facebook will eventually phase itself out of being big with the college crowd and work more towards a myspace type of mass-connection website. We already have seen parts of this, with many people becoming conscious about what is in their profiles because of rumors of people "stalking" them, as well as companies and recruiters looking through to see prospective workers.
Is it worth 1 Billion? Well, apparently Yahoo thinks so.
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Authors for Final Project Blog:
Grant Robinson, Section 1
Li Sun, Section 1
Bret Eathorne, Section 1
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