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As the internet and all its tools and platforms expand, so to does the realm of what can no longer remain private and confidential. Social networking websites by their very nature are meant for you to reveal information about yourself. The moment you create it, you understand that some of your personal information will be exposed online and even strict privacy settings can still expose your information to the internet. However, there have been new innovations to privacy settings on social networking websites like Facebook where they allow the user to prevent anyone from finding them and the only way they can have friends is by initiating the invitation themselves. There are settings that also allow you to choose what information is displayed to which users that are in your network. These innovations have given users a lot of leeway in what they can keep private, however some users still complain that there is not enough privacy settings and more need to be created. One privacy problem that exists is that if you have added a friend accidentally or on purpose into your network, that user can copy and save all your pictures and videos into their computer and then upload it back on to the internet when and where ever they choose to. This naturally would be something users would want to avoid happening to their profiles.