GIVEN the bad press that Facebook has had in recent weeks over its privacy policy, many people will have considered pulling the plug on their online social networking.
And yet few people appear to have cut loose. A campaign called flopped after only 36,000 people signed up to close their accounts out of more than 400 million users worldwide.
Why? Maybe most people think the benefits of Facebook outweigh the risks. They have a point. Online social networking has changed our lives for the better in many ways: from altering our influence over others to providing handy career…
