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

Where's the NON-STORY tagging?

[Jack9]

taking a look at the slow death of privacy at the hands of social media sites

Social Media sites have no influence over privacy. Marked lame.

this is article is completely stupid

[circletimessquare]

people WANT this information out there. end of fucking story. the rest is predicated on a failed assumption

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?

Repeat after me:

[samael]

Security through obscurity is not obscurity - tell anyone and you've told everyone.
Information wants to be free. Even when said information is a photo of you lying unconscious next to a keg.

Re:Solution: don't join facebook?

[Hitto]

If you get THIS shitfaced, I say it's your own goddamn fault. Who pees in the middle of the street, apart from dogs?
CONSEQUENCES, PEOPLE!