Facebookistan

The podcast is all about the world's largest social network, Facebook. Facebook gives people an open range to interact with fellow friends/classmates/coworkers and family. The main reason Facebook was to catch up with old friends who you have no contact with over a social network. Facebook has grown into a powerful place, you can promote, sale and engage on the network. Only thing is, Facebook requires a lot of personal information to be put infront of the whole world web for everyone to see. Facebook requires a full name, your current residence and the option of contact information including email and phone number. Most people on the internet are thankful for Facebook so they can interact with their friends, but Facebook is becoming too personal for most and putting their safety in risk. Facebook is more like a robot now, it can see what you browse online even when your not logged in. Once you are a user your under Facebook control, no privacy and sometimes no credit for yourself because anyone can steal your information and use it their self. Facebookistan is basically another country with controlling observation and altering assumptions. For example, liking a brand just because you do give the brand the initiative to send you emails and request as much as they please. The podcast also interviewed a girl whose rapist added her as a friend on Facebook and asked her to contact him. I was shocked when I heard this, if it happened to me, I'd freak out completely. In her situation him and her exchanged messages and talked about the problem in the past. She wanted to know the truth and to reassure herself she wasn't delusional. He told her exactly what happened and told her not worry, she wasn't crazy it was a simple mistake. She told the podcast she felt grateful for Facebook because she finally got her answer and quit blaming herself for it.  She gave him advice for his daughter and son, and realized he was a human just like her, he just made a mistake like everyone else does. She knew he was 
genuinely sorry, and wasn't necessarily chipper he found her on Facebook but finally she can put the past where it belongs. The podcast shows people who use Facebook how easily it is to locate information on others, but in that sense isn't a good thing for other's privacy.