Popular social networking site, Facebook, is being pressured to review its privacy policies according to BBC News.
Women make up 56.2% of Facebook users, and women are joining up at a much faster rate than men.
At the end of 2009, Facebook changed its default privacy settings so that users' information was completely public, unless they opted out. If you were not aware of this change, it meant that all of the personal information on your profile page could be viewed by anybody who searched your name in the 'find a friend' function.
Recently, Facebook have changed their default settings again. Through the creation of new categories for profile data, they have sidestepped some of the previous 'opt-outs', and (again!) mades certain pieces of user information available to everybody on the web.
Since women make up the majority of facebook users, and since women are the more likely then men to be victims of abuse by people they know, is this a feminist issue? I think so.
