The New Porn Site Called Facebook

I don't know if you have had this problem on your facebook newsfeed lately, but millions of people have been having rude, vulgar, and violent pornography popping up. Yesterday I was one of the unlucky people to have to witness this issue. I thought that one of my friends was just a giant perve and I preceded to report the photo to facebook. However, the longer I "creeped" down my newsfeed, the more I noticed other users having the same problem. Apparently, according to this article titled Facebook Slammed By Porn Attack, a porn company hacked facebook flooding it with vulgar porn.

I in no way support or agree with the pornography industry, but on one hand unfortunately, it is disgusting to say that, for the porn agency, this has been a lot of good publicity for them. Facebook has millions and millions of users around the globe and these hackers have reached many of them. Now, while I am sure for the majority of the people who were effected probably had the same disgusted reaction as myself, I am also sure that many people had the opposite reaction. I mean, the porn business is still booming for a reason.

On the other side of the spectrum, this is terrible publicity for facebook. There are so many children and other people of all ages and backgrounds that use facebook. There are so many people who were very offended by the photos that ended up on their newsfeed. Many people have cancelled their facebook accounts and moved to other social media like Twitter. The article, Facebook "virus" shows hardcore porn and violent images, addresses the drastic move of users and tells readers that facebook is aware of the situation.

Ok, thats great that they are aware of it, but are they doing anything to take care of it? Are they searching for the hackers? Are they going to hold a press release apologizing to the public and to the facebook users who were offended? I really think that they should. I feel like if they hope to get back users that they lost, then that is a vital step. I am sure that the number of users who were offended was much greater than those who were not and, if the problem persists, than even more people will deactivate their accounts.

Is facebook going to take the necessary PR steps to try and heal their reputation? Or, will they continue to let the quality of their feeds lessen and allow offensive material to grace their pages?