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May 2010
So let me repeat: In Facebook, we get to create our publics. In Twitter, we decide which publics to join. But neither is the public sphere; neither entails publishing to everyone. Yet Facebook is pushing us more and more to publish to everyone and when it does, we lose control of our publics. That, I
Great photo above from the protests in central Athens. And then there is this collection of photos alleging the same dog has been in many protests. Probably different dogs, but it’s a great photo-set nonetheless: “The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot for years” via allcreatures: Demonstrators throw stones to the police in central
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook The data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data. The population sizes are statistics from Google, the Facebook Data Team, and wild guesses
I earn my living from Facebook and am usually one of the platform’s biggest advocates. As part of NewsCloud’s Knight Foundation grant, I regularly evangelize Facebook applications to media companies and publishers. But Facebook’s increasingly hostile policies toward end user privacy keeps making my job more difficult than it should be. From a Facebook application
I enabled the ‘Ask’ feature for my tumblr.
I enabled the ‘Ask’ feature for my tumblr. I don’t do comments on this tumblr. But it feels like I need an easier way for folks to contact me with questions, so I’ll give this ‘Ask’ feature a try. Currently, anonymous questions are enabled, even though tumblr warned me against it. We’ll see how that
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