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By: Privacy is Hard Because People Change Their Minds

Privacy is Hard Because People Change Their Minds — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:25:15 +0000

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By: Open Thread: Is Social Networking Making Your Life Better?

Open Thread: Is Social Networking Making Your Life Better? — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 14:05:08 +0000

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By: Judd Weiss

Judd Weiss — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:35:30 +0000

In Defense of Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg

http://hustlebear.com/2010/06/05/in-defense-of-facebook-and-mark-zuckerberg/

By: Privacy As a Competitive Advantage in Mobile

Privacy As a Competitive Advantage in Mobile — Mon, 31 May 2010 16:01:19 +0000

[...] Comments 0 Over the past few months, the debate over privacy and its role in the continued evolution of information technology has been reinvigorated. To some extent, the [...]

By: Breanna Hughes - Private Parts

Breanna Hughes - Private Parts — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:24:58 +0000

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By: Geumcheon, Day 283: Open Later to my exFacebook. « Joelle Pearson's

Geumcheon, Day 283: Open Later to my exFacebook. « Joelle Pearson's — Fri, 28 May 2010 02:35:10 +0000

[...] For starters, you didn’t know the first thing about respecting my privacy. You told everyone everything I shared with you. You sold my secrets to every fatcat company – the music I liked, the places I shopped – you even shared my chats and pictures with anyone who asked! And it was going on behind my back the whole time. I was never smart enough to figure out how to stop you. [...]

By: Vid

Vid — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:36:13 +0000

Isn’t posting photos and names and birthdays part of what Facebook is about? It wouldn’t be much of a social network without them.

I think that this is a slightly deceptive framing. I think the point here is that of course we want to share things. We want to share photos and birthdays and who we are friends with and what we like - but we don't want to share that information with everyone on the planet. This was the main reason I had for joining, the reason I thought facebook was such a fantastic idea in the first place. Before fb, there were other sites where we could build a profile, but they were basically web pages; everyone could see them. If we wanted to communicate privately we could email, but email has its limits. Facebook was a middle ground. I could upload my pictures of the party my friends and I had, and know that only my friends would see them. My friends might find my drunken shenanigans amusing; my mother might not.

It is not unreasonable to have a social network wherein one can choose not to reveal one's information with all and sundry, yet still share it with the people one chooses. This is, in fact, a much more realistic mirror of real life.

Think about it in these terms: when you talk to your friends in a cafe, do you shout so that everyone can hear you? Probably not. Does it not strike people as odd that they are being forced to either scream at the top of their lungs so the whole world can hear them, or to keep silent? How is that a choice at all?

By: Israel

Israel — Wed, 19 May 2010 08:13:36 +0000

I've been struggling with leaving facebook or not since december 2009 when they changed the policy regarding who could ADD me as friend.

Before there were 3 options: everyone, friends of friends, no one ... and I felt comfortable choosing the last one. Now there are just two ... FB guesses that friends of friends should be mine & they think it too

By: Facebook’s Privacy Crisis Is Also Its Opportunity

Facebook’s Privacy Crisis Is Also Its Opportunity — Tue, 18 May 2010 14:46:25 +0000

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