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In Chapter 15, Jacquielynn Floyd writes an article called "On Facebook, Biggest Threat to Your Private Data May Be You". In this article, Floyd discusses the privacy aspect of social media. Floyd brings up good points regarding people "sharing" large amounts of information about themselves on Facebook including when they purchase something or even what they are wearing. Basically, each person signing up for Facebook or other social media, is responsible for their own privacy. I completely agree with this. If someone does not want their boss seeing their partying hot mess express photos from the weekend, do not post them and allow all of Facebook to see it. In addition to this, if you do not want to be creeped on by strange people, or anyone for that matter, do not go accepting every friend request you ever receive just to have the most amount of friends (yes this happens). If someone is okay with talking about which gym workout they did, or which chicken they ate, then that is fine. However, people should not have a cow when Facebook wants to change their privacy Terms and Conditions. The only way to fully protect yourself is to only provide the information that is acceptable to be viewed by anyone and everyone. I do understand that social media does randomly change settings and users do not become aware until things go haywire, but besides this, no one can blame anyone besides themselves when their partying or half naked pictures are viewed by all.