Facebook and "radical transparency." ⇒
24 May 2010, early afternoon
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
24 May 2010, early afternoon
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
It’s very difficult to quit Facebook without convincing others to also quit. I’d love to just kill my account right now, but there are many people who choose to ONLY communicate through Facebook these days, and I would hate to lose touch with them. It’s very frustrating that most users just shrug off the privacy issues…
Thank you for continually posting these articles.
by stacy on May 25 2010, 12:25 pm #
I wish I had stuck to my guns and never joined in the first place. I have the same problem as you. I have a handful of friends who post photos and other junk on Facebook and nothing but Facebook. Thankfully I don’t have too many friends who only send out Facebook invites to things, and I have almost no friends who use Facebook’s stupid-ass not-email system to send me messages. (I think that’s the thing I hate most about Facebook.) I was talking to Shima’s friend Nina about how I want to kill my account, and she thought I was being ridiculous. I think a lot of people have a distorted perception of how private what they do on Facebook actually is.
by ramanan on May 25 2010, 12:47 pm #
I think most people just don’t care whether the-things-they-do-on-Facebook are private. Even for me (IE someone paranoid) privacy has nothing to do with why I don’t use Facebook.
I don’t buy that “dependence” makes it difficult to quit using Facebook. If you stop using it you lose access to Facebook-only invites/pictures/content…but that’s all the same stuff you were OK with missing out on in the first place, isn’t it?
by Weiguo on May 25 2010, 5:21 pm #
I was OK with missing out with all that junk till I knew what was there. So now I would miss seeing peoples photographs, etc. The question is would I really miss it that much. I feel like a chump every time I log into Facebook. Who wants to use something that makes you feel like a sucker?
And yeah, I think people don’t think too hard about their privacy period, on Facebook or elsewhere. At least with Facebook they do have all sorts of privacy controls and try to be explicit about what they are doing. There are plenty of sites on the Internet who aren’t so forthcoming. Google probably collects all sorts of random information about me and uses it in ways I can only guess about.
by ramanan on May 25 2010, 6:04 pm #
I just finished reading a book called Delete. It highlights some of the arising privacy and remembering problems coming up in the digital age.
It highlights some of the shady practices of facebook, google, yahoo, etc…
Pretty good read.
by G on May 26 2010, 1:14 am #