How would one feel if a stranger approaches him with his personal information? – from his birthday to the food he likes, from personal best friends to his favorite singer. These are the things that most parents forewarn their children about social networking sites. Many popular Social networking sites are the base on which millions of teenagers and young adults exchange their interests, their personal information, photos and videos, and miscellaneous content. Social networking sites could bring about many disadvantages; Privacy intrusion is the main concern.
The value of privacy and confidentiality should be the foundation of a social Networking site. New & upcoming social networking site Mycube.com features highly in privacy league table. Complete controll of one’s account is one of the best features on the offer by this site. MyCube lets the owner of an account to have complete control over his data, information and content. Here, the owner himself decides with whom to share the content & under what terms. That is, he may share the data and other content according to conditions favorable to him.
Many sites trick online users to sign agreement that benefits only the sites. As online media consumers, users are used to “clicking” a box and ignoring the text inside. It’s becoming obvious that a lot of people sign over their creative & content rights to these companies in exchange for access to popular social networks. This is a choice most of the users make, without taking a minute to think about their choices. Another golden feature by Mycube is monetization. The content created by an user will not be owned by the site or the company but by user himself. That means the user will be able to sell his or her own created content in exchange of payment currency known as CUBES. Cubes are exchangeable to real currency. This is the real honest characteristic of this site beneficial to users. Moreover they follow opt-in advertising system that states that if one wants to place ads on his profile and content, he can earn money from the revenue generated by these advertisements.
These features are surely of great benefit to an ordinary online user. Its like a democracy and renaissance among the social networking sites following the principle – “of the users, by the users & for the users” .
