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For my final blog, I found this article on TIME.com which captured my eyes and attention. It was very intriguing and interesting to read the many ways listed on this website as to how people relate and understand Facebook. The article titled “How Facebook is redefining Privacy”  According to this article, within the next few weeks, Facebook will “officially log its 500millionth active citizen.”  This makes you wonder, hmm.. “what number am I”.  Just kidding, but on  a serious note, it makes one wonder, how Facebook has greatly changed and altered peoples everyday lives and also how it has affected various cultures and countries around the world.

In the article, they talked about how the actual work settings relates to the actual Facebook website.  It was said that “hundreds of employees work in big, open-air bullpens-without cubicle walls, there isn’t much privacy, so each desk seems like, a Facebook wall”   From this, it’s obvious that these employees are practicing whatever they preached.  The article also talks about Mark Zuckerberg’s idea of targeting “your likes”

Finally, they used the question ” What Voldemort Is to Harry Potter” is basically what Facebook and privacy is to society.  It was mentioned that, as the years progressed, privacy has been changing and people don’t want complete privacy.  In fact, they want control over what they share and what they don’t.  In a sense, the comparison to Voldemort, makes me think that without Voldemort, Harry Potter would not be that interesting likewise, without Facebook, the internet would not be the same.  Definitely, now we know, the internet has been changed and will not be the same like it was eight years ago.