privacy
December 2009
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A Place for Enemies?
posted by in
Tue 29th
Welcome to social media 2010, where your lifestream testifies to who and what you are, and your audience is not always a friendly one. With Twitter largely public by design and Facebook on a forced march towards openness, people will increasingly have to stop to consider whether their contributions might be seen, tracked, or flagged by audiences that could use their words, opinions, and pictures against them.
November 2009
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Corporate trolling on employees’ Facebook pages
posted by in
Tue 24th
I challenge companies to think more creatively about the way in which they surveil their employees’ Facebook pages. Not all of the stuff that goes up there is scandalous; there are those who use their profiles to broadcast more wholesome things—fundraisers, food drives, art gallery openings, humanitarian causes. If companies are going to censure shameful self-expression on Facebook, then they should equally affirm and promote the more altruistic forms of self-expression that also exist in the social media realm. Linking to, promoting, or retweeting causes espoused by their employees—any of these actions would be a healthy exercise in balance, and would also help erase the fear that your boss is lurking on your Facebook page, waiting for you to slip up.
A Place for Enemies?
posted by in
Welcome to social media 2010, where your lifestream testifies to who and what you are, and your audience is not always a friendly one. With Twitter largely public by design and Facebook on a forced march towards openness, people will increasingly have to stop to consider whether their contributions might be seen, tracked, or flagged by audiences that could use their words, opinions, and pictures against them.
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Corporate trolling on employees’ Facebook pages
posted by in
Tue 24thI challenge companies to think more creatively about the way in which they surveil their employees’ Facebook pages. Not all of the stuff that goes up there is scandalous; there are those who use their profiles to broadcast more wholesome things—fundraisers, food drives, art gallery openings, humanitarian causes. If companies are going to censure shameful self-expression on Facebook, then they should equally affirm and promote the more altruistic forms of self-expression that also exist in the social media realm. Linking to, promoting, or retweeting causes espoused by their employees—any of these actions would be a healthy exercise in balance, and would also help erase the fear that your boss is lurking on your Facebook page, waiting for you to slip up.
