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The Implications of a Facebook Society

Posted by Zonk on from the you-could-just-not-put-stuff-on-there dept.

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.'"

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  1. I'd comment on this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    But I have a feeling someone is watching!

    *gasp*

    1. Re:I'd comment on this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah.. about that. Could you *please* wear pants when surfing the internet. It would do all of us here at HQ a big favor. I'd simply put in a request to brainwash you into putting on pants, but the paper work for that is like ten pages, and it takes a couple months to go through the red tape and what not. If you don't comply, we'll simply just have to come to your house and beat the everliving daylight out of you. Less paperwork for that.

  2. Future Society by Grandiloquence · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think they're referring to the Facebook Wars of 2013, after which the nominal Facebook World Government will require all citizens to publish their most intimate details online for public scrutiny.

  3. Re:Egregious nonsense by physicsboy500 · · Score: 2, Funny

    But you forget the compulsive typists like myself that can't help but divulge things like their cheating wife and erectile dysfunction on the internet in public forums... wait...

    *submit*

    "DAMNIT!"

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  4. Re:this is article is completely stupid by Billosaur · · Score: 4, Funny

    and EVEN IF there is someone out there who is so stupid as to think posting this information is private: who amongst us ever thought it is our duty in this world to protect morons from themselves?

    One word: Congress

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  5. Re:Private Lives Private by Digital+Vomit · · Score: 2, Funny

    Wouldn't a simpler solution be to stop socializing?

    This is Slashdot, after all...

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