Reluctance to engage in social media usually revolves around the lack of privacy that social media websites provide to the users. Recently the Canadian government investigated Facebook after several complaints were filed against the social media juggernaut. “Canada’s privacy commissioner said she was satisfied with the site’s efforts in dealing with privacy complaints filed against Facebook two years ago”, but Today Facebook launched some new tools in an effort to increase privacy for their users.  The article can be read here.

The conflict between privacy and freedom of information will always exist, and Facebook is certainly not a private place to interact.  I think that users need to stop blaming Facebook (the facilitator) and start blaming themselves–if you don’t want something shared with the whole world, stop putting it online!