Facebook Redesign Angers Students Over Invaded Privacy
Facebook launched a redesign yesterday which changed the layout of the homepage and introduced a few new features. The users, mostly undergraduate students around the country, find the "News Feed" feature (shown to the right) an invasion of their privacy and "basically creepy." Using the "groups" feature of Facebook to rally together, one user, Ben Parr of Northwestern University, created a group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." The group's description reads as follows:
"We want to feel just a LITTLE bit of privacy, even if it is facebook. News Feed is just too creepy, too stalker-esque, and a feature that has to go."
"Students Against Facebook News Feed" already has over 60,000 members and is growing. Group members are pledging to stop updating their profiles until the new features are removed or altered. There is also a call to "boycott" Facebook on September 12th.
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