I’ve been trying to put a finger on my perpetual gravitation towards Facebook. It’s starting to feel a bit like a “bug drawn to light” route – and my intent is not to continue bullying this particular tool. But I think I’ve finally figured it out. Facebook provides context for a multitude of issues that’s [...]
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the facebook bridge
27Nov07digital privacy and facebook
27Nov07Courtesy of the Digital Natives blog:
Building Walls in Facebook
There are, of course, still millions of college students who post anything and everything to their profile, with no qualms about who sees it. Call it negligence, call it expression, it doesn’t matter. What does matter, and what interests me, is the growing group of students who [...]
consumer rights continued
17Nov07In continuation of yesterday’s post regarding social networks, advertising applications and privacy, David Weinberger offers a great overview of the situation with Facebook in his post entitled, “Facebook’s Privacy Default,” via The Huffington Post.
Facebook makes an astounding array of information available to its advertisers so that they can precisely “target” likely suspects. This is great [...]
what about the consumer
16Nov07An article published by PC World entitled, “Advocates Ask FTC to Investigate Social Networking Ad Plans” attempts to shed light on the increasing need for consumer protection as social networking giants, Facebook and MySpace, move forward with advertising initiatives that may be exploiting their online participants.
Two consumer advocacy groups have asked the FTC to investigate [...]
