My brain does funny things.
I'm not sure exactly what my fluids professor said, but this is how it happened in my head.
"Sorry if this is too mathy... too dry. Soon we'll apply this to pipes and real situations. Soon it will get wetter." I think he may have actually said better, but I did not appreciate the pun at 9am on a Friday.
My brain also made this fun little thing happen:
you = you + delta(you).
Oye.
Celebrity with hair most like mine: Johnny Depp.
Hopefully more thoughts will follow on Facebook, privacy, and deletion.
This struck me as interesting, however "Still, such experiences have done little to quiet the jitters of many users, who see Facebook’s adjusted policy as an inadequate response to their demand for an easy opt-out button and to their larger concerns over the network’s efforts to profit from the private information they volunteer to the site."
Mini rant: Ok, I don't think Facebook has dealt with a lot of things well. They only consider privacy when people complain about it, rather than designing for it. I'm not a fan of how they've done a lot of things - its a lot harder to fix and make sure it was done right after it's been released to the wild. However, there's something to be said for not posting things on Facebook you don't want other people to see. YOU PROVIDE THE INFORMATION. You VOLUNTEER it. I dunno, maybe I subscribe too highly to the philosophy of "don't do things in your life you'll be ashamed of later." Or maybe its just how the media chooses to spin some of these things, but honestly - you have to own up for your own actions, to some extent.
This situation happens ALL THE TIME. And while I don't think Facebook should give so much "private" information to the application developers, the user agrees to it, in many cases. However, there's a lot of stuff Facebook hides/doesn't tell users that they are "consenting" to - and thats not really consent, is it?Labels: Social
posted by Lauren @ 10:00 AM
4 Comments:
I think I'd be with you 100% if Facebook hadn't made such egregious privacy errors already. The sudden introduction of feeds fundamentally changed the nature of the site from a bulletin board of sorts to a constant over-the-shoulder cam. And then there's the whole purchasing information thing with what, Amazon, was it? That was both intrusive and completely out of nowhere.
I may not try to hide it when I go out shopping, but I still wouldn't want somebody stalking me the whole time.
I wonder if some of the problem is just the fact that they don't seem to announce anything? It seems like these developments are always completely out of the blue. Maybe I've just been missing them, but it seems like a little header somewhere saying "We'll be adding feeds in two weeks! Here's how they work!" would save a lot of people a lot of gnashing of teeth.
The information flow just strikes me as spectacularly bad for such a big operation.
Oi. I missed a spot.
That isn't to say that users shouldn't be held accountable for the information that they make available. Far from it; we need to take responsibility for our actions, especially when our actions are grossly irresponsible. But we also shouldn't have things like Facebook compiling dossiers on us with such frequency that we're too petrified to share anything. There's always some give and take going on. The internet has something of a knack for making people forget about the first part of that.
Facebook scares me and I'm scared that it's become such a staple within our (and starting to be other) generations. I think that the organization holds liability but in the end, you're right. Don't be stupid enough to put something on the internet that you don't want the whole world to see. Don't say anything in public that you would regret someone overhearing. Don't take pictures if you don't want them to be evidence. That being said, I don't trust easily! :)
I wonder if some of the problem is just the fact that they don't seem to announce anything?
Well speak of the devil.
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