I think not. The assault on privacy will not stop or slow; however, it will become diluted by the incredible quantity of data. We will be protected not by the re-introduction of privacy but by the fact that our foibles are not interesting enough to attract attention.
jwallace - your tweet pretty much sums up the point of the blog but from the individual vs. company perspective. I wonder why you'd regret not having a permalink. It might be better left unrepeated.
when I tweet drunk, the text is slurred. Iwas looking for a permalink so I didn't have to post my drunken tweet from September 2010 here but alas
PhillyD aka sxephil, you's a stoopid mofo. I said it and so are yhour followers. You and your strreamy nomination can kiss my"
the benefit in this lesson is it just dawned on me what a permalink could be used for.. seen it for years, had it in apps we developed but I truly did not understand its function/role.
Absolutely. In fact, I rarely even try to restrict social media content to a limited audience. I don't expect that to work effectively, and if it works now it will probably get broken in a future update.
And this is why I have a strong anti-app stance. I want to be the one determining what is posted on my behalf. I certainly don't want an app asking all my contacts to share their birthdays and pass the request on to all their contacts, as at least two different apps have tried recently. I almost always reject app requests, while allowing public access to my content.
"I just make sure that, if I'm going to lose a bit of self-control one evening, it's lost in the presence of trusted friends -- friends who don't let friends drink and tweet."
. . . or friends who don't tweet about your losing it. We all need to remember we're on 24/7. Whether it's directly connected online or a few degrees of separation from being connected, always remind yourself you can be anyone's next tweet or text . . . ready, camera, action!
"like Mitch, I basically assume everything I put on social media is public."
me too!!
even the postings in private fb groups (leaks..)
"In order to keep your right to be left alone, you have to give up your right to privacy, in order to keep your right for privacy, you have to give up your right to be left alone" - father of virtual reality (so I'm told)
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