MONDAY, JULY 2, 2012
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook change irritates students
DYLAN DERRYBERRY
editor@kansan.com
Like most Facebook users, Shanny Latney didn't notice when the social media site created an email application in 2010. She also didn't notice when Facebook replaced her personal email address with an @facebook. com address without her permission. She wasn't pleased when she found out.
"That is kind of messed up. I think it's none of their business for them to delete it," Latney said. "I like to have my things separate, my yahoo accounts and stuff, because I don't want everything coming on to one. They shouldn't have done this at all."
According to Facebook newsroom, the change was made in order to make addresses more "consistent" across the site. The user names people use to get to timelines are used to send emails directly to their messages inbox. The change may have started on April 12, but it wasn't until this week that users began to notice, and the online community has expressed criticism. Users were previously allowed to show contact information like Yahoo! and Gmail accounts, but now most have been removed from
view.
Kayci Vickers, a behavioral neuroscience student at the University, uses a Gmail and KU account and said she doesn't see the need for a third account.
The change is not permanent though. For those who want to offer a way to get in contact with them outside of Facebook, there is a way to show your original email address. Click on the "about" section underneath your profile picture, look for "Contact Info" and click "edit" in right hand corner. Once there, you can switch between the listed email addresses and hide the @facebook com one.
Superdave of the online forum "Skeptics Guide to the Universe" posted, June 25, "This is not cool. Man, I wish I could leave Facebook, but it's just too useful to me as a crutch for my otherwise terrible social ability."
"I think it should always be a choice. This is a kind of a small thing, but I could see it jumping to a big thing," Vickers said. "I mean if they're comfortable doing this without telling us, then they could do anything."
—Edited by Maegan Mathiasmeier
Facebook has replaced users' publicly listed email addresses with the website's own email application. Although it can be changed by adjusting settings, some users feel the change was a violation of privacy.
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RIDGEWOOD, N.J. — The parents of Tyler Clementi were ready to accept a plea deal calling for no jail time for their son's Rutgers University roommate, who used a webcam to see their son and another man kissing.
But what they learned at trial made them more convinced that the roommate, Dharun Ravi, deserved to be sent to prison.
Tyler's mother, Jane Clementi, said it was only during the trial in March that she learned her son had viewed Ravi's Twitter posts about the webcam dozens of times in the hours before Tyler killed himself in September 2010.
"I did not realize he was in on the joke," Jane Clementi said Friday in an interview with The Associated Press and two other news outlets.
She said that detail made her understand her son's pain more.
The case drew worldwide attention after Clementi's suicide in September 2010, just days after the spying, and made her late son into a symbol of the perils of mistreating young gays.
Ravi was convicted in March of all 15 criminal counts he faced, including bias intimidation and invasion of privacy.
In May, Ravi issued a statement in which he said he was sorry and was ready to serve his sentence. The Clementi's said they didn't see it as an apology, in part because it was not made directly to them. Still, Joe Clementi said, he expects to forgive Ravi, eventually.
He was released from jail June 19 after serving 20 days of a 30- day sentence imposed by a judge who could have given him up to 10 years in prison.
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