Facebook Wants To Shift To Private Networks Which Is The Definition Of Irony

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook, said in a blog post on Wednesday that Facebook will shift to a "privacy-focused communications platform...". The news came from an article that was posted by Samuel Axon which talked about the transformation from a public platform, which Facebook has now, to a private platform where not everything that you post will be out on the internet forever. I mean, come on now. The amount of privacy issues that Facebook has had in the past, one of which caused private information of thousands of Facebook profiles to be released, shows that they really did not care about the safety of the millions of people that have an account.

The key takeaway here is that the public platforms will still exist in which people can interact and network with one another, but the instant messaging feature that Facebook has will be on a private server. Why are they doing this now? Other companies such as GroupMe and WhatsApp are already on private servers, so they very well could just be looking at the direction in which communication is going and trying to get on board while making it seem that they are being innovative. The big question here is: will Facebook violate the privacy rights of millions by reading their messages on a "private" server? The answer will remain to be seen and the situation is definitely one worth monitoring.