Comments on: Am I Being Naive About Facebook?

By: WisTex

WisTex — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:23:20 +0000

Well, I think it depends on what you use it for. I have all my "tweets" (Twitter posts) automatically appear in Facebook, reply to people commenting in Facebook and see what my friends are doing, but I don't do much else there. Although my Facebook profile is private, I assume everything I post there would be publicly available at some point, and I post accordingly.

Between hackers, nosy administrators, forwarded e-mails, copy & pasted posts, spyware, warrants, court orders, tracking software and companies going out of business selling all your data, anything you post online is subject to disclosure at some point in some way, legally or illegally.

Basically if you don't want people to know, don't post in on the internet. After all, privacy on the internet was an afterthought.

By: jakrose

jakrose — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 05:43:44 +0000

You are just knowledgeable about the web and social media more than most. So you realize what you should and should not be putting out there.

But at the end of the day, I think the privacy concerns are overblown. The web is open. Do not put things on it that you would are not comfortable with the world possibly seeing. This rule goes for email even.

Nice convo Rachel.

By: Techwatch

Techwatch — Wed, 19 May 2010 21:49:31 +0000

they have a habit of stepping on peoples toes and then thinking it is ok to just say sorry afterwards

By: Peter Salvitti

Peter Salvitti — Wed, 19 May 2010 11:35:12 +0000

Thanks! I was just about to post about here … as secure as I “thought” my settings were, it found some privacy holes.

By: Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:07:29 +0000

Thanks for all of your comments on this post. I really appreciate it! Yes,
when I ran that search tool yesterday, that was one area that was called out
for me. I changed that. Thx for the article.

By: MITDGreenb

MITDGreenb — Tue, 18 May 2010 17:38:18 +0000

And another thing...

http://www.mediapost.com/publications/?fa=Artic...
This story discusses a truly insidious problem: one person's decision to live life in the open divulges information about others who have chosen not to. As the article says,

"So when people like Robert Scoble and others proudly proclaim their Facebook page an open book, remember it could bring others along with out into the open who choose to remain private."

By: Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:39:06 +0000

I agree with you. Was just trying to understand the implications of those
changes on people

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:01:38 +0000

The motivating factor for me -- http://ariwriter.com/why-i-want-to-delete-my-fa... -- is not about privacy and my right to change such settings but the fact the company guaranteed me certain protections when I signed up for an account so many years ago, and it has constantly pulled the rug from underneath me until all I have left is nothing to call my own.

I was never paranoid with the information I distributed through my Facebook wall and photo albums and the like because I was always confident the data stayed within my friends and networks. That's no longer the case, as search engines like http://kurrently.com show.

I recognize things change, but I also recognize Facebook management is assuming I want certain elements turned ON on my account when I really want them OFF. Their changes should be opt-in, not opt-out. And that is why they are bugging me to no end.

By: Ari Herzog

Ari Herzog — Tue, 18 May 2010 08:56:01 +0000

I recently learned from an AT&T engineer that their staff routinely listen-in on calls made through their network.

By: Rachel Levy

Rachel Levy — Mon, 17 May 2010 23:42:29 +0000

Wow, that's awesome! Just ran it on my account.