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Best advice I ever heard (and it came from an ex-Facebook employee), "treat communication ("private" & "public") on all services, including Gmail, Facebook, and
by nak3d 15y ago
Best advice I ever heard (and it came from an ex-Facebook employee), "treat communication ("private" & "public") on all services, including Gmail, Facebook, and Tumblr, like a million people are listening."
- X-Istence 15y agoOr better yet start using OTR on these services and verify the "key" on each end before continuing to talk about private matters.
- incongruity 15y agoThat doesn't account for the times the receiver decrypts your communication and then intentionally makes it public. There's a deep wisdom to the idea that one ought not put into words that which they wouldn't want the world to see... Once it's out of your head, your ability to control it diminishes if not outright vanishes... Just say'n is all..
- WettowelReactor 15y agoThat does not really cover it as all FUTURE people are listening as well. Time has a funny way of obliterating context.
- parallel 15y agoSimilar advice that was given to me during a messy legal fight'; Assume that anything you put in an email might one day be read out to you in court.
- robrenaud 15y agoI think my life would be considerably worse if I had been treating all e-communication with my girlfriend as though it was public. It has yet to hurt me.
- jojopotato 15y agoI'm pretty sure that in Gmail, delete actually means delete.