This project is about advertising and privacy and whether or not companies should have access to consumer personal information without consent and then personalizing advertisements back to the consumer. It will also look at actual consumer response to advertising and privacy and how actual consumers feel about receiving personalized advertisements.

Annotation (all three facebook annotations are the same)

These three articles address the issue that one cannot be fully deleted from facebook. Instead your account is deactivated. The data persists on facebook's servers "in case you wish to reactivate your account". Users were concerned about persistence, i.e., forgetting, but of course, the articles and facebook frame the issue as a question of privacy. Facebook has since incorporated the ability to delete, but the option is still difficult to find and implement. Facebook has also integrated several other privacy features, but I would argue that the issue (again) is that of data persistence rather than data exposure.

Citation
Aspan, Maria. 2008. Quitting Facebook Gets Easier. The New York Times, February 13 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/technology/13face.html?sq=facebook%20profile%20delete&st=nyt&scp=2&pagewanted=print (Accessed March 1, 2008).

 

Annotation (all 3 articles have the same annotation)

These three articles address the issue that one cannot be fully deleted from facebook. Instead your account is deactivated. The data persists on facebook's servers "in case you wish to reactivate your account". Users were concerned about persistence, i.e., forgetting, but of course, the articles and facebook frame the issue as a question of privacy. Facebook has since incorporated the ability to delete, but the option is still difficult to find and implement. Facebook has also integrated several other privacy features, but I would argue that the issue (again) is that of data persistence rather than data exposure.

Citation
Aspan, Maria. 2008. How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free. The New York Times, February 11 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html?_r=1&sq=facebook%20profile%20delete&st=nyt&oref=slogin&scp=3&pagewanted=print (Accessed March 1, 2008).

 

 

Annotation (all facebook artilces have the same annotation) 

These three articles address the issue that one cannot be fully deleted from facebook. Instead your account is deactivated. The data persists on facebook's servers "in case you wish to reactivate your account". Users were concerned about persistence, i.e., forgetting, but of course, the articles and facebook frame the issue as a question of privacy. Facebook has since incorporated the ability to delete, but the option is still difficult to find and implement. Facebook has also integrated several other privacy features, but I would argue that the issue (again) is that of data persistence rather than data exposure.

Citation
Aspan, Maria. 2008. After Stumbling, Facebook Finds a Working Eraser. The New York Times, February 18 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/18/business/18facebook.html?sq=facebook%20profile%20delete&st=nyt&scp=1&pagewanted=print (Accessed March 1, 2008).