Facebook is a social networking site used thought many people to find old friends, to share information, to publish pictures and to meet new people. However no everybody is using it in the same way. There many people utilizing this media with another propose.
Actually, Facebook with almost 500 million Facebook users is a platform that is being used by criminal to lure potential victims. They are using this site as a tool to comment murder, kidnapping and some case to robbery. Likewise, there are people utilizing it social networking to harassment Facebook’s user.
However, ironically the police authorities also are using Facebook to resolve this cases.
Accordingly, is Facebook a safety social networiking to share information and to meet new friends?
Facebook’s user are utilize it for to comment murder; like is the case of "Ana Maria Chavez a 19-years-old girl student from Bogota-Colombia was killed by two men who she had met through Facebook. She had accepted to one of the two men who committed the crime as her friend on the site. Seemingly, he gained the victim's true and they started a friendly relationship though this social networking site.
Likewise, is Ashleigh Hall’s case; a 17-year-old girl student from Sedgefield-England, who was murders by man she met on Facebook. When she met him, he said “that she was father of the boy that she was waiting". He then kidnapped, raped and murdered her.
In another hand, are the cases for robbery, where criminals are using Facebook to get into home, as the case of Caroliny who is Montgomery resident. She put on her Facebook what “she is up to on the weekend-leaving home to go to the beach.” And then when she arrived to her house, this had been stolen.
Millions of peoples are posting personal information about themselves. Knowing that this may be used against. Some people are sharing too much over Facebook, your up-to-the-minute location, your naked photos, your mama's maiden name - can be harmful, even dangerous, people must understand that, there are people out there who want to use our information nefarious reasons.
Accordingly, Facebook is not totally responsible about this crimes, people must to know how to use their information, and in the same way, people must to know where is the most apropiate place for to share their information, likewise what kind of information is appropriate to share.
However, Facebook changes privacy settings for to protect their user. Facebook says “people like sharing, and the main worriers about privacy are the professional privacy advocates”. There will now be "a single control for your content, more powerful controls for your basic information and an easy control to turn off all applications," Zuckerberg said in a post on The Facebook Blog.
Although there were many cases of crimes committed against Facebook users by acquaintances through this social networking are many people who are adding so-called friends, not realizing that this could be a potential criminal, in the same way; this user to continue publishing information that in many cases it is desirable to share with everybody
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