Facebook was created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow Harvard students. It originally started as a platform for Harvard students but expanded to other universities. By 2006, it allowed people in work networks to join and by 2012 it reached 1 billion active monthly users globally. However, privacy has long been a concern with Facebook as many users, especially teens, share personal information publicly like their cell phone number, school, and location. Several studies found that a significant portion of Facebook users have not checked their privacy settings. Facebook also faced criticism over changes to privacy policies and features involving facial recognition and data sharing.

1. Dislike: Facebook’s Privacy
Settings
By Jasmine Nazzal

2. About Facebook
 Facebook started on February 4, 2004
 It was created by Mark Zuckerberg and fellow students Dustin Moskovitz,
Chris Hughes, Eduardo Saverin in a Hardvard dorm room
 They originally called it “Thefacebook”
 It was originally designed only for Harvard students, for the purpose of
meeting other students on campus

3. Timeline
 February 4, 2004 - "The Facebook" is launched
 March 2004 - Students at Stanford, Columbia and Yale universities are allowed to join Harvard
students on Facebook.
 June 2004 - The company moves to Palo Alto, California.
 December 2004 - One million users are active on the site.
 September 3, 2005 - High school students are allowed to join Facebook.
 September 20, 2005 - The company drops "the" from the name and becomes Facebook.
 December 2005 - The number of Facebook users reaches six million.

4. Timeline (cont.)
 May 2006 - Facebook allows people in work networks to join.
 October 2007 - Microsoft buys a 1.6% stake in Facebook for $240 million.
 February 9, 2009 - Facebook introduces the "Like" button.
 June 2009 - Facebook becomes the number one social network in the U.S., surpassing
MySpace.
 November 2011 - Facebook settles charges brought by the Federal Trade Commission that it
engaged in deceptive practices concerning users’ privacy.
 May 18, 2012 - The initial public offering of Facebook stock takes place.
 October 2012 - Facebook reaches one billion active monthly users.

5. Stats
 As of 2015, there were 1.4 billion active monthly users on
Facebook.
 72% of internet users are Facebook users
 It is blocked in North Korea and most of China
 There are more than 10,955 employees at Facebook, and it is
headquartered in Menlo Park, California.

6. Why is privacy an issue?
 15% of Americans have never checked their social networking privacy and
security account settings.
 21% of teen Facebook users share their personal cell phone number
 72% of teens have a social networking profile and nearly half (47%) have a
public profile viewable by anyone.
 25% of teen Facebook users share videos of themselves

7. More Stats
 Teens often include the following information on their social networking profiles:[4]
 Real age (50%)
 Photos of themselves (62%)
 City they live in (41%)
 School name/location (45%)
 Videos of friends (16%)
 Videos of themselves (14%)o Their cell phone number (14%)
 Places where they typically go (9%)

8. Concerns
 College students are the most predominant users of Facebook
 76% of college students are at least somewhat concerned that
posting information publicly could negatively impact future.
 Facebook’s Moments feature was introduced in 2015
 It uses facial recognition to make photo sharing easier, was not
allowed in Europe.

9. Types of Personal Data
 Likes: a person, band, movie, web page, or any other entity represented in Facebook's social
graph that has a "like" button.
 Name, Picture, Gender, Birthday, Contact Info
 Extended Profile Data: Your family members, city, place of birth, religious views, favorite
authors, schools attended
 Friends
 Networks: The personal networks you've set up on Facebook (e.g. colleges & universities or
companies).
 Wall posts & Photos

10. Privacy Issues
 In 2013, Facebook announced it would be getting rid of a privacy feature
that controls whether a user’s timeline could be found when searching for a
user by name
 The company claimed that only a small percentage of its billion users were
using it
 Additionally, the Federal Trade Commission was investigating a set of privacy
policy changes Facebook proposed in late August.

11. Sources
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 Wisniewski, P., Xu, H., Lipford, H., & Bello-Ogunu, E. (2015). Facebook apps and tagging: The trade-off
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