Facebook, the work of Bill Belichick?

Facebook has grown wildly in the past four years populating almost every high school and college laptop, and even those of graduates and now teachers. ;) Facebook has also grown from its early age, when the capabilities of the website was only messaging and “posting on walls”. Facebook now has hundreds of add-ons to its website that users may use to personalize their page. One could get a Hebrew calendar on their homepage, or ravaging zombies. These features are meant to be fun and more intimate, showing more of the users personality, but the newest feature on the site allows people to view recent activity that the user has been doing on the web. The new feature can show the last transactions places by the user, movie tickets being bought, among many other things. It seems Facebook has built a monopoly on the networking industry… If you want to be cool, and have a Facebook, you will allow these actions to take place. Luckily users of Facebook will not comply. A group has been formed on the site called “Facebook, stop invading my privacy”, and Facebook CPO Chris Kelly has received the message. Kelly states though that users can opt to disable the feature with no other ramifications. I believe that this is not an invasion of privacy, and in this regard I agree with CPO Kelly, although I really hate those other stupid things you can add such as the zombie feature because they are just so stupid. But keeping on task, an invasion of privacy does not seem to be occurring because the users have the ability to stop it whenever they want. So why would this feature even have been made? Truthfully, some people just like the attention. When Facebook attempted about a year ago, to create a new feature called “news feed” it also came to these same criticisms. This news feed showed new wall posts, new friendships, relationship, and breakups of friends all when you logged in. People claimed this was an invasion of privacy! And they shouted that they did not want their personal business being flaunted when everyone logged in. Facebook groups were made to petition Facebook to get rid of these atrocious things that no one wanted or needed. Those criticisms have since quieted down to being absent. I guess that people realized, hey, its actually pretty cool, and if I don’t want it, I can disable it. This is the route that this new feature will take in my opinion. Even if the cries are loud and strong right now, they will quiet in a month’s time. People are afraid of change, when it comes to leaving home, changing jobs, cars, houses, and any aspect about their lives. Turns out, Facebook is no different.