Facebook has become Frankenstein's monster, and
Mark Zuckerberg is its creator. Never has a social networking
application stirred up such controversy: government agencies have
relentlessly mined its cornucopia of intel, companies have fired
employees over unflattering party photos, and old flames on Facebook
draw away their former lovers from existing faithful relationships
with flaxen cords. As a computer science student, I can't help but
nervously feel the watchful eyes of my friends (and potentially my
future employers) as I post a status on my Facebook page. On the
other hand, Facebook is only an application distributed over several
parallel processing servers that understands no ethics but only bits.
No one forces anyone to post controversial Facebook statuses (except
sometimes your “friends” will tag you in unflattering photos from
last year's Halloween party.) The only power Facebook has to affect
anyone's life is the power that the individual willingly gives to it.
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