Who owns your social media account? | Prakkypedia
Recently I blogged about why your boss should allow you to use social media in the workplace. This has a lot of advantages (read my previous blog to find out why). Who owns the keys to your Twitter account? But what happens when your workplace not only allows you to use social media, but requests that you use it? Take this to the extreme and consider – who then owns your social media account? This is a very important question, which I don’t believe has been debated enough. • References where they work • Might include a link to their work website address or work’s Twitter handle • Might even include the workplace name as part of their personal Twitter handle, for example @AndyAtStarbucks. They say today’s employee will have many jobs in their lifetime. Take for example the case of journalist Laura Kuenssberg, who amassed quite a Twitter following while working for the BBC. What should she have done? The Online Journalism Blog captured some of the debate.
Mark Zuckerberg on Data Portability: An Interview - ReadWriteWeb
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is at SXSW doing press interviews today and many people want to know what his thoughts are concerning data portability. There's a big web out there that would like to give and take user data in and out of Facebook. We focused on data portability in our conversation with Zuckerberg and got a fairly clear picture of his views on the subject. Zuckerberg told me today that he believes data portability is an important direction the web is moving in, that fundamental openness between sites is inevitable - but that Facebook is focusing on questions of privacy and user control as its contribution to that movement. That may be a fair, if frustrating, position for Facebook to take. Privacy Controls as the Key to Data Portability Granular control over degrees of openness are vital to making openness viable, Zuckerberg told me today. "Take a photo album from a party," he said. When that information is opened, though, which parts of it are sharable and which aren't?
The Many Challenges of Social Network Sites
In this blog, I strive to provide a balanced viewpoint of both the benefits and challenges of a web strategy, it’s easy for us to become over-hyped and then fall right into the pit of exuberance. From white label social networks to existing social networks like Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, and on, there’s been much hoopa raised. Yet, we should always remember the challenges that are facing these tools, as there are many difficulties to overcome. Each of the following hurdles can be overcome, but first, let’s identify them. Even Google says it’s having a hard time monetizing social networks , why? The use case is completely different. In the case of the many white label social networks (white label means you can rebrand, and create your own Facebook), there are too many players in the space. Remember Friendster? In many cases (I’ve seen reports of up to one-third) of users submit inaccurate information on their profile.
Other people's privacy - Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog (Jan 2010)
In the wake of Google’s revelation last week of a concerted, sophisticated cyber attack on many corporate networks, including its own Gmail service, Eric Schmidt’s recent comments about privacy become even more troubling. As you’ll recall, in a December 3 CNBC interview, Schmidt said, “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. But if you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines – including Google – do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities.” For a public figure to say “If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place” is, at the most practical of levels, incredibly rash. There’s a deeper danger here. Privacy is the skin of the self. Related
Technology protest: what do you do?
Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research write about some responses to social media protest: It’s common, and easy, to say “just don’t use it.” There’s actually a term for this– technology refusal– meaning people who strategically “opt out” of using overwhelmingly prevalent technologies. This includes teens who’ve committed Facebook suicide because it causes too much drama; off-the-grid types who worry about the surveillance potentials of GPS-enabled smartphones; older people who think computers are just too much trouble; and, of course, privacy-concerned types who choose not to use Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, websites with cookies, or any other technology that could potentially compromise their privacy. I was, frankly, tempted to let this slide by in a linkspam, but we’re a bit quiet around here this week, so, let’s talk about varying forms of technology protest. How about you? Note: a bit of amnesty would be nice in this post. Like this: Like Loading...
“I’m Your Biggest Fan, I’ll Follow You Until You Love Me”: Anonymity, Privilege, and the Quest for Personal Truth Border House
This article will be a rather long one so I beg your forgiveness in advance, but it is a piece of great personal importance to me. The debate it touches on is one that imbricates with all of our geek lives, and the lives of those beyond our particular nerdy circles. Indeed, as Blizzard recently proved, it is a debate that will touch on many online video game properties. Randi Zuckerberg, marketing director for Facebook, caused a bit of a stir recently when she resurrected her brother’s ideological hobby horse and proclaimed that progress requires the death of anonymity on the Internet. An Ideology by Any Other Name What I find fascinating about our society is the great importance we place on our names. Randi Zuckerberg To speak from my own perspective, I hated my old name with a passion. The Zuckerbergs seem to disagree. What the Zuckerbergs are promoting, consciously or otherwise, is an ideology that is intimately concerned with promoting one truth over another. A Blizzard of Paperwork
