PIPE DREAM

I'm currently one of the copy editors for the unofficial school newspaper Pipe Dream and I was looking over the articles for next week's issue. There were a few Op/Ed articles about the problems with virtual communication, most notably Facebook, which was what we have been discussing over this past week.

In one of the articles, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, said that he was taking away users' privacy settings in order to create a site that was more like Twitter. Many Facebookers are now upset that any content we post on other people's walls will be available to be read by everyone else on their News Feed. Originally, Facebook was created for those who are affliated with an .edu network, or in other words, college students. But it soon expanded so now almost anyone can keep in touch with friends, family and relatives.

This is what Zuckerberg had to say in response to the concerns Facebook users had:
"Making connections - finding people you know, learning about people, searching for what people are saying about topics that interest you - is at the core of our product. This can only happen when people make their info available and choose to share more openly."

The articles really interested me and I thought I would share some of its content with you guys since it's pretty much what we've all been discussing for the past few days. If you want to read more, you can definitely check them out in the next issue of Pipe Dream.