Institute of Disruptive Studies... love it... (sorry, I was having a monty python moment...)
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Google datasharing and what do about it
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More scary facebook privacy news
You know, facebook, you keep this up, users will eventually leave... Really. myspace probably never thought it would happen to them, either.
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Facebook's new system for connecting together the web seems to have a serious privacy hole, a web developer has discovered.
Some people report that they are able to see the public "events" that Facebook users have said they will attend – even if they person is not a "friend" on the social network.
More here...
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Tightening down your facebook privacy
As part of making the web more "social", Facebook recently announced a whole slew of changes in April 2010. In addition to that, some new things popped up under privacy... so you might want to take a look. For one, it now looks like you can control who sees your gaming activity to a greater extent (my non-gaming fb friends, I know you are tired of me begging for help to raise a bigger barn....). I am excited about that one and I'm not sure how recent this one actually is.
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More facebook changes (includes privacy)
This is being reported from the facebook developers conference today (I'm condensing...) -- no mention of privacy as this is geared towards those writing applications:
The most important mechanism is the [new] like button. No dialog, no login....By lowering the friction, we’ll dramatically increase sharing. Little friction, just an iframe. No register with Facebook, no nothing. Just the iframe. ....We know who the user is. Even if we’ve never visited CNN before, if four of my friends like that article, I’ll see their names.
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Your private life, well, it's not so private (higher ed, social media, and privacy)
Interesting article about faculty and social media, touching a tiny bit on online presence & digital identity ( because you know -- say it with me kids -- if you're not building your digital identity, someone is building it for you...)
but also further removes the illusion that faculty members -- or anyone, for that matter -- can maintain a completely private life on the Internet.Heh. Did we think otherwise? Come to think about it, is any part of our life private?
Facebook: content vs. action, privacy & more (presentation)
Presentation in January:covers
- Uses of facebook
- Social media netiquette
- Privacy issues (including changes in Facebook privacy; content vs.
Social media etiquette
I'm tweaking my facebook, privacy & identity workshop, so I tidied these up. You can read all of my previous writings about privacy, here, facebook ones are a here, and here are the commandments... LOLSocial media/ Facebook Etiquette· Be aware of what you can control and what you can’t. Make sure to read TOS and Privacy statements – they do sometimes change.
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scrubbing your identity from facebook accounts
Alot has been written about how hard it is to really get rid of your facebook life should you so want to (just google -- lol), but facebook does say that you can do it in one shot, which this fb group explains. Deleting an account is supposed to scrub facebook of all of your posts, comments, tags, your virtual footprints... You can go directly to the link, here. Of course, you can always manually delete each tag, post, video, photo, comment,etc.
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Lawsuit against Facebook
I wonder how many more lawsuits are out there pending against facebook? And to answer my question, this is actually a followup to earlier legal action.This one accuses Facebook of "conspir[ing] with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records."According to the article the previous law suit (which resulted in a settlement on Facebook's part), "some 44 companies agreed under the Beacon program to supply Facebook with information about the online transactions of Facebook users, so the data could be broadcast to “friends” on a user’s Facebook page.
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For Zynga game users (you know, farmville, mafiawars, vampirewars, etc....)
Interesting article about the fallout over Zynga (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc., which all have huge communities on facebook) and its scam ads. Hmm, yet another reason to pay attention to what you click on and ALWAYS read the TOS. ;-)"Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincus has announced that the company will remove all offer advertising from their games.This isn’t a meaningless action.