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In August 2007 the code used to generate Facebook's home and search page as visitors browse the site was accidentally made public. [6] [7] A configuration problem on a Facebook server caused the PHP code to be displayed instead of the web page the code should have created, raising concerns about how secure private data on the site was.
Facebook is a social networking service that has been gradually replacing traditional media channels since 2010. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Facebook has limited moderation of the content posted to its site. Because the site indiscriminately displays material publicly posted by users, Facebook can, in effect, threaten oppressive governments.
Social networking sites vary in the levels of privacy offered. For some social networking sites like Facebook, providing real names and other personal information is encouraged by the site (onto a page known as a 'Profile'). This information usually consists of the birth date, current address, and telephone number(s).
Facebook's notification to "update your name". The Facebook real-name policy controversy is a controversy over social networking site Facebook's real-name system, which requires that a person use their legal name when they register an account and configure their user profile. [1]
Some websites that allow user-contributed content practice self-censorship by adopting policies on how the web site may be used and by banning or requiring pre-approval of editorial contributions from users that violate the site's policies. For example, a social media platform may restrict speech that it considers to be hate speech more broadly ...
As social networking sites have risen in popularity over the past years, people have been spending an excessive amount of time on the Internet in general and social networking sites in specific. This has led researchers to debate the establishment of Internet addiction as an actual clinical disorder. [59]
In the context of media reports [39] and lawsuits [40] from people formerly working on Facebook content moderation, a former Facebook moderator (Chris Gray) has claimed that specific rules existed to monitor and sometimes target posts about Facebook which are anti-Facebook or criticize Facebook for some action, for instance by matching the ...
On social networking sites like Facebook, users may be able to block users which prevents the user they have blocked from seeing things on their profile or contacting them. [9] Such blocking is often reciprocal, meaning the blocking user is also blocked from seeing the profile and activities of the blocked party. [ 10 ]