Privacy is a big issue in the Internet. With explosion of social networks, the issue is bigger than ever. Complaints have come from every sector, individuals, special interest groups, governments, etc. The Canadian government limply sought to sanction Facebook if it did not change its privacy policy. The Chinese government is now in a standoff with Google.

But at the heart of this controversy is the individual user. The founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, said that if he were to start Facebook again he would not make anything private on his website. His rational for this was that he believes that in general social network users want to make everything on their page public. The latest Internet phenomenon, Twitter, is premised on the desire of users to let others know what they are doing in their daily lives. So it is Internet users who are deciding how much privacy they want. And that decision appears to be in favour of less privacy, not more.

At Spacelocker we make it simple for users to decide on the level of privacy they want.

First, with the new sign up procedures you are given a choice of which existing friends you want to invite to be part of your locker. And you are given a choice of what method you want to use to invite those friends to your Spacelocker – automatically from your web based address book, or by adding them individually.

Once you are a member of Spacelocker, you can decide which Spacelocker users you want to become your friends. You can easily invite a user to be you friend by clicking on their profile picture in the Meeting Place. A window will open asking you to “add as a friend”. Or you may receive a friend request asking you whether you want to add that person as a friend. The decision is yours whether you want to add someone or not. You can be as public or as private as you want on Spacelocker.

When you use your locker page you decide what you want to post on that page and what you will allow others to post on it. If you do not like something some has posted on your page simply use the delete button and it will be instantly removed. Or if you think someone has been abusive, you can report them by clicking on their profile and use the report abuse button that can be found in their friends box. And finally if you are really unhappy with the levels of privacy in Spacelocker simply ask to be removed.

Spacelocker gives users a clear choice on the issue of privacy.

The Spacelocker Fleet.