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Facebook and privacy
The huge social networking site (and new heavyweight champs of the internet for the foreseeable future) has an absolutely terrible record regarding privacy. This post from the Information Technology...
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4.12 degrees of separation
That’s the average path between users of Twitter. Pretty amazing. From the link: The ideas behind Stanley Milgram’s original “six degrees of separation” experiment, which suggested that any two people...
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Facebook is a privacy nightmare
Here’s a timeline of the social networking site’s eroding privacy policy courtesy of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From the link: Since its incorporation just over five years ago, Facebook has...
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The Facebook Effect
No, I’m not the David Kirkpatrick who authored the upcoming book on Facebook — The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World — but if you enjoy social networking,...
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Third party Facebook privacy fix
If you use Facebook, running this tool is a pretty good idea. It’ll at least let you find out exactly what parts of your profile are exposed where and to whom. With the steady diet of privacy setting...
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Even more on social media and privacy
And this one isn’t just limited to Facebook. Social networking sites may be sharing a lot more of your identifying data with their advertisers than you realize. From the link: A report in the Wall...
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Over half of Facebook users may quit?
I find this poll very dubious to say the least. I’m guessing there’s a serious methodology issue in the surveyed population. A very tech savvy crowd would have a much higher awareness of Facebook...
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And newspapers wonder why they are a dying breed
Via KurzweilAI.net — You couldn’t make this stuff up, “That social media thing? It’s a passing fad …” NYT Bans The Word Tweet “Outside Of Ornithological Contexts” The Awl, June 10, 2010 Phil Corbett,...
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Facebook to IPO in 2012?
Maybe so. From the link: To be sure, Facebook has focused on increasing its membership, and it has been wildly successful on that score: the number of Facebook accounts is now nearing 500 million. So...
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Social media, mobile devices and GPS
A pretty nasty privacy combination. Sure many people willingly broadcast their whereabouts at all times via all sorts of social media, but I’m betting most people really don’t want their location...
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Twitter adds an income stream
And it sounds both sensible and quite unobtrusive. Kudos to Twitter for looking for ways to create revenue without wrecking a unique web experience. From the link: You’re probably familiar with the...
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Citizen journalism v. traditional media
This University of Missouri study shows citizen journalism (read: bloggers, et.al.) is not filling the void created by the collapse of traditional media. In an ideal world the two complement each other...
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Social networking advertising tops $1.5B
And not surprisingly Facebook is getting half of the $1.68 billion in social media/web 2.0 advertising forecasted for 2010. Facebook offers a very attractive advertising model in terms of very granular...
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Watch out for Facebook’s “groups” overhaul
Once again Facebook creates a PR headache for itself with the changes to Facebook groups. You just might find yourself part of a group you don’t really want to be a member of … From the link: That was...
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The perfect t-shirt …
… for anyone who’s sick of social media. From the link: In case others don’t understand the essence of MySpace, Twitter, Facebook and Foursquare, make perfectly clear the commonalities of these social...
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