Privacy

When researching for my paper on privacy I have come across many articles involving facebook privacy being an issue. Recently I have known an actual case where facebook has directly effected one of my friends and their life. My friend from home is turning 21 so he is under the legal drinking age, and he is graduating a year early from college and is expecting to get a big time job when he gets out, well that was until his last interview. The interviews started out with over 400 people from different parts of the U.S. then went down to 200, then down to 50 now it is down to the final 4, which my friend is one of. Well to be at the final four in itself is amazing and even if you don't get this job it means you have a great chance of getting any other job in that field, but what my friend Tom didn't know was the intense back round check they would do on him. I am not talking about police background check because tom has never been in trouble in his life but it meant a face book and myspace background check. Well they found tom on facebook and searched through his pictures and saw one where he had a beer in his hand and used that picture against him saying he was underage and it was illegal and he lost the job over this picture. Now i know what most people would say, well its his own fault. But what ever happen to privacy, which is what the issue is here. Did tom have a right for his own account on facebook to be kept private or because he put it out there does anyone have a right to access it? The realization is with the growing internet craze what is safe and private anymore? Even if I put my facebook account of private and only allow those who i personally know to look or access my account there are ways of getting into my account. How private is privacy when it comes to the internet? The problem is with the internet it is so easy to access anything you want from someone Else's computer you don't even have to be in the same room. If i was to put a picture of me drinking underage in a filing cabinet in my room no one would have access to that picture without a warrant yet if i put that same picture on my computer on facebook and kept it just as private anyone could get it without a warrant and I believe that is where the privacy gets divided.