"Anonymous Member" (Lizzy Sblendorio Post #5)

 

The Anonymous Member on the social media app, Facebook, has become a new feature that many like but others do not. With this feature, members of Facebook can comment or post into a group anything under 'anonymous member'. Is this privacy setting too much or is it a good thing. One thing to remember is to never believe everything you read on the internet. What is a puzzle in itself is whether or not that person with a cute profile is actually the real person. What I mean by that is anyone can create a profile on Facebook, how do you know that all of their information is correct? You simply do not. Privacy has become a little too common in my opinion. There are not enough steps to verify your real information. That is why I do not like the anonymous feature on Facebook. What if someone says something hurtful or a threat and they are listed as a anonymous member? Yeah it can trace back to their normal profile but what if that person does not exist. Being invisible is all over social media apps. You never know who you are really talking to. 
I do not have a personal experience with this per say but I thought it was very relevant to this weeks talk about ethics, privacy and professionalism. A very important way to address this situation is to make people more aware of cyber security and all of its disadvantages. We live in a world full of technology and it is so important to to be aware of the dangers that it can make. 

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  1. Zoe ManaloOctober 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM

    I did not know about this, thank you for sharing. It is scary how much information can be shared online and is that information even true? I agree there aren't that many steps to verify your privacy or information. I also kinda dislike how some verification steps are just clicking a link on your phone or email that anyone can just physically take.

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  2. Lauren MesleyOctober 5, 2025 at 1:33 PM

    Hi Lizzy, fascinating new development with Facebook! Social media is an interesting phenomenon because never before have we had virtual public spaces like this. In a real-life public space, people must go through great lengths to be truly anonymous, but on spaces like Facebook apparently, all you have to do is flip a switch. With this development we're losing the social accountability aspect of public spaces, so that there is all of a sudden no consequences for anything that people do or say. So much to think about here. In many ways social media has become the wild west.

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