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Hear hear to that! I'm always puzzled by all these privacy nuts that go on and on about privacy problems with social media sites like Facebook. If something is
by jamesjyu 17y ago
Hear hear to that! I'm always puzzled by all these privacy nuts that go on and on about privacy problems with social media sites like Facebook. If something is absolutely private and you do not want to share it outside of one or two people, DO NOT put it on a social media site! Period.
In fact, I would go as far as to say never put any critically sensitive information on the web.
- ams6110 17y agoAbsolutely. I sum it up as: "What happens on the internet, stays on the internet".
- rokhayakebe 17y ago"What happens on the internet, sprays on the internet. Fast. And Forever."
- minalecs 17y agowell sometimes its your friends.. that will put pictures up of you without knowing, or will tag you in and can't remove it yourself
- derefr 17y agoNot having a Facebook account will not prevent people from posting pictures of you on their own, and even including your name in the picture description (thereby "tagging" you in every way except the notification.)
- timr 17y agoNot having Facebook will not prevent people from posting pictures of you on the web. The horse is pretty far out of the barn on that one.
- kmavm 17y ago"well sometimes its your friends.. that will put pictures up of you without knowing, or will tag you in and can't remove it yourself" As many have pointed out, this happens already in blogs and email, on twitter, in various forums, etc., and not joining facebook will do nothing to prevent it from happening on facebook. But more importantly, if you don't want your friends doing X or Y to you on facebook, you have a very powerful method of ensuring that at your disposal: make it clear that you find this unacceptable when it happens. Over time, people get the message before making the mistake, and these expectations harden into social norms. Ultimately, relying on these social norms is much more robust than relying on technological solutions, in my opinion.
- pbhjpbhj 17y agoI thought that one could now veto tags for yourself in pictures? Doesn't prevent you being named in the description.
- zmmmmm 17y agoSo in your view, people should just have "one or two" friends on Facebook? How many people do you know who actually use Facebook like that? Do you really think that is the intended purpose of Facebook?
- jacquesm 17y agoThe sum total of a bunch of innocent stuff posted about you by others can add up to a lot more than the parts if someone decides to put it together. I read this a few days ago: http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ http://www.wired.com/vanish/2009/11/ff_vanish2/ Privacy is even more dead than I ever suspected.