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This is the biggest mistake that people make. Social media is NOT a private sphere. There's nothing remotely private about posting things to a public service on
by neilalexander 9y ago
This is the biggest mistake that people make. Social media is NOT a private sphere. There's nothing remotely private about posting things to a public service on the Internet over which you have no control. We need to stop treating them as such.
- matt4077 9y agoI also don't control the phone company, the post office, or my friends' email providers. Am I supposed to never communicate with them unless it's face-to-face? I'm not talking nuclear launch codes here. It's impossible to lead a normal life without using communication services, and it's some sort of fantasy to think you could, for example, organize your social life without leaving enough clues to create a pretty accurate profile. So I think what we need to stop doing is pretending it's realistic for everyone to run around cosplaying MI6.
- neilalexander 9y agoThere’s a distinction to be made between communication services and social media. Personal communications should of course be private, but social media is not a form of personal communication. It’s a form of broadcast, usually to a company’s servers you have absolutely zero control over. You don’t need to “cosplay MI6” to be diligent with what you share and what you don’t. You should just be prepared to assume that anything you post on social media can and will appear in the future.