Since my entrepreneurship idea is based in a very personalized form of social media, the issue of privacy is very important. Having a page so customizable and filled with personal details means giving away a lot of information so it would all have to be well protected. To protect against the casual or investigating observer a person's profile page could only be viewed by people who both have an account with the site and are also friends with that person. Only the person's name and the fact that they have a profile are visible otherwise.
Photos would also need to be blocked by google image search as well, including all the specific emotion pictures and any animated gifs. This could possibly be avoided by setting up photos on the site to need a specific action such as typing in a visible phrase to view them on the site. That way, with this protocol protecting them, they couldn't simply be viewed on google. That or some kind of blocking program against google images would be employed.
These kinds of measures could be changed, but their default is the most secure setting so that no one could see any details of their profile without being connected to them on the network. People sending friend requests would also need to include in the request their actual relationship with them as well as a small message to confirm who they actually are. This would make sure that the person receiving the request can judge if they really know this person and choose to reject of accept their request. And if someone has to lie about who they are in the request, this can be spotted by the user and appropriately reject or even report the person in question.
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