{"id":206,"date":"2008-02-20T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T20:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/does-privacy-matter-to-most-facebook-users-lets-look-at-some-data\/"},"modified":"2008-02-20T16:08:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T20:08:33","slug":"does-privacy-matter-to-most-facebook-users-lets-look-at-some-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/does-privacy-matter-to-most-facebook-users-lets-look-at-some-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Privacy Matter to Most Facebook Users?  Let&#8217;s look at some data."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small>Published on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.compete.com\/2008\/02\/19\/does-privacy-matter-to-most-facebook-users\/\">Compete.com blog<\/a> on 19 February 2008<\/small><\/p>\n<p><strong>Does privacy matter to most Facebook users?<\/strong>  Take a look at the chart below, and judge for yourself <small>(weekly unique visitors to facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/privacy.php\">privacy settings<\/a> pages)<\/small>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/home.compete.com.edgesuite.net\/site_media\/upl\/img\/fb_privacy_feb08.png\" alt=\"Facebook Privacy Data\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even after all the recent mainstream media coverage and debate surrounding Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/07\/the-facebook-ad-backlash-begins\/\">controversial<\/a> beacon program, online privacy in general, and Facebook making available universal beacon opt-out &#8212; <strong>traffic to Facebook&#8217;s <em>privacy settings<\/em> pages has essentially been flat<\/strong>.  NOT A GOOD SIGN!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely that the average Facebook user DOES care about their privacy, and know they should do <em>something<\/em> about it, but are mostly unaware or don&#8217;t know what they can or should do.  <strong>Should Facebook be <a href=\"http:\/\/500hats.typepad.com\/500blogs\/2007\/12\/privacy-matters.html\">doing more<\/a> around online privacy education?<\/strong>  There is a lot of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allfacebook.com\/2008\/02\/the-importance-of-user-education-in-privacy\/\">unintended<\/a>  <a href=\"http:\/\/valleywag.com\/tech\/your-privacy-is-an-illusion\/bank-intern-busted-by-facebook-321802.php\">sharing<\/a> going on, and I think it is in Facebook&#8217;s long term best interest to do so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published on the Compete.com blog on 19 February 2008 Does privacy matter to most Facebook users? Take a look at the chart below, and judge for yourself (weekly unique visitors to facebook&#8217;s privacy settings pages): Even after all the recent mainstream media coverage and debate surrounding Facebook&#8217;s controversial beacon program, online privacy in general, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competecom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hepguru.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}