With great power comes greater responsibility, remember the Spiderman. Today Facebook is exactly in the same scenario. As it aspires to be the super power of the web it needs to understand it has got greater responsibility than before to its users. Some of the key issues to the future of Facebook will decide on how it deals with
Security and stability: With more than 400 million users as on date and growing at a astronomical rate when so much of personal data is entrusted with a company like Facebook, is the data safe and secure. What if for one day Facebook goes down, will all the sites built on this ecosystem also go down?
Privacy: The privacy settings of Facebook is something that many are not comfortable with. All the details about a user are open for access to any site or application, worse even their friends data are shown up. Even if you have set high privacy settings details about you could be obtained when your friends sign up or register to a site. Assume one of your friends goes to a porn or gambling site than the site will have access to your data also, sounds scary right!
Hackers: With so much of monetizable data Facebook is always going to be a target for hackers. Even a small glitch in it can create chaos. Facebook had to recently shut down its chat system after it emerged private conversations were visible to other users. Any user was able to view the live chats of their friends, as well as their pending friend requests. This is just be a small sample of the potentially bigger hazards.
Stalker: Facebook is also a stalker of your entire online activities. No we are not talking about you clicking on a like button and Facebook tracking it. Irrespective of whether you like it or not your online activities will be tracked. One way to escape from being tracked is to do your browsing in the inprivate or Incognito mode. For more details on the same check an indepth article on the same by Ashwin Anand http://bit.ly/9dSYey
The future of Facebook will depend on how it handles the issues discussed above else it will not be long before Facebook gets itself entangled in unnecessary mess. Remember it takes one sensitive issue to blow up the entire system and pull down Facebook. With greater power comes greater responsibility and greater scrutiny.
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