The Implications of a Facebook Society

FloatsomNJetsom writes "The site Switched.com is taking a look at the slow death of privacy at the hands of social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace with a link to a report on the creepy practice of Facebook employees monitoring what pages you look at and a thought-provoking video interview with social media expert Clay Shirky — who says that social networks are profoundly changing our ability to keep our private lives private. 'Eventually, Shirky theorizes, society will have to create a space that's implicitly private even though it's technically public, not unlike a personal conversation held on a public street. Otherwise, our ability to keep our lives private will be forever destroyed. Of course, that might already be the case.'"

Comments

Re:Private Lives Private

[Anonymous Coward]

Should we start to chat about how you were a dope smoking drunkass in college that couldn't even make it with the fat girl? heh!

Re:Or you could just, you know

[blindcoder]

I couldn't agree more.
Anyone posting shit on 'social networking' (aka: emotional/personal strip tease) sites should just stop a second to think about the consequences.

For the rest of us, our chances for a good job go up with every idiot on those sites.