A number of leading bloggers have said that they’re deleting their Facebook profiles on account of its recent changes to the way it treats users’ privacy, reports Read/Write Web. The changes have actually turned out worse than I reported a couple of weeks ago, when you could opt out of appearing on the new
| ||||
If Facebook were a country, it would be the fourth largest in the world, just after the US, but bigger than Russia, Brazil or Argentina. Two-thirds of ComScore’s top 100 US websites and half of the their global top one hundred websites have implemented Facebook Connect. So what’s next? The video is of Bruce Sterling at the Lift conference last year, reflecting on his 2005 book Shaping Things. It is about the Internet of Things, the idea and practise of giving objects in the physical world an Internet presence. You’ll have seen this word flying about recently and it’s time for some explanations. Err… don’t you mean ‘publically’? [’publicly’ if you’re American] No. Well, in some ways, yes, I do. Let me explain. In the past, there has been an assumption that privacy was the default state of human existence. It was only when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is reported as having changed his mind about privacy. The recent set of changes to the site’s T&Cs in December – which rendered members’ names, profile picture, gender, network, fan pages and friends visible to the world unless they explicitly changed their settings – merely reflects societal I am always suspicious of Internet ‘experts’ who pay homage to the digital natives idea. The idea that young people are not only generationally different from me, but also are psychologically different. Perhaps it’s my age. Being over-40, I react badly to anything that suggests that I’m not long from the care home. |             | |||
CC-BY-NC-SA 2012 twopointouch - All Rights Reserved |
||||
Recent Comments