Facebook Privacy Trainwreck

Posted on February 26, 2012 by cruzanthonymark

Facebook definitely has its ups and downs and what dictates these ups and downs are the features included with it. Everything you do that is being broadcasted to hundreds of people(your friends mostly) on facebook is a feature that doesn’t exactly get along with most facebook users such as myself. I know that like myself other facebook users want to keep their privacy, but the “ticker” feature does a very good job of exposing everything you do on facebook and there is no way to get excluded out of this feature that deliberately exposes everything you do without your consent. The huge question is, is Facebook owner and founder Mark Zuckerberg really trying hard to protect our privacy? And if he is, why doesn’t Facebook add an option for its users to opt out of this ridiculous feature?

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Facebook’s TrainWreck.(a mixed bag)

Posted on February 26, 2012 by ajimenez630

Let me first express how……predictable this article was.Midway through I guessed the author would deviate from his examples and give a “no one knows what the future holds” speech.I was surprised however when she mentioned AT&T’s “Cobot”, (a robot that was like a physical version of a social network)being an avid fan of anime and sci-fi,I wanted her to delve further into it. Like how it would’ve handled things today now that so much of the world has integrated into social networks.Another wondrous thing is it was made in the late 90’s making it probably one of the first of its kind.Coming back to the article the RSS part kind of made me detest her. “I detest RSS feed readers-they play into my desire to read everything anyone has ever written”, I often use RSS feeds to keep on top of sites like IGN or Youtube but im not spending hours upon hours reading about StreetFighterXTekken.Coming back to the examples given, people on facebook always know what happening in their social circle.That is why facebook is what it is today because it lets the user be in the “know” by joining you accept what that new information can do to you and your friends.

 

 

 

 

 

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Facebook

Posted on February 26, 2012 by Guzman Kiara

Do we ever really have privacy? No we do not, what ever information you pot on to the internet is really accessible for everyone. Facebook is the most unsafe website I believe because of the fact in how you expose.images of yourself and informationand anyone can really easily save these images if they want and use then for anything they want. People also put there phone numbers out there as if its ok. Facebook is also a bad look for you if you have a job because your co-workers or boss can look you up and see what really goes on in your life and who you really are. It’s ridiculous how many are addicted to this.

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Facebooks Privacy Trainwreck

Posted on February 26, 2012 by egonzalez

Boyd’s “Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck” discusses the logic behind why many users were upset with Facebook’s launching a feature referred to as “News Feeds”. With this feature users would login and see updates of the actions, comments and forums their friends participated in and vice versa. Many users did not like the fact that others would automatically get these updates, “News Feeds” made them feel as if the lost a sense of privacy. Mark Zuckerberg’s stated that they were not making any “private” information public, the information shared on the “News Feed” was all ready public information and I completely agree with him. I am in no way a Facebook supporter, (in fact I find it quite annoying how many people have become Facebook “addicts”) but honestly the fcfat of the matter is “IF YOU DON’T WANT OTHERS TO KNOW, THEN DON’T PUT IT ON THE INTERNET!”

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Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck

Posted on February 26, 2012 by mikeferrara

Exposure on Facebook is something users, myself especially, dread.  In high school exposure was not such a big thing for me.  I did not care who seen what but now everything has changed.  As you enter the professional world you meet people such as co-workers and bosses, who will find and request you on Facebook. Because of this exposure they will see anything and everything you do.  I now find myself censoring my own Facebook weather it is untagging myself in pictures from the weekend, or deleting posts that friends have put on my wall that might be seen as a bad refection of myself.  I have some friends who have gone so far as to have two pages. One for their professional life and one for their private life.

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Marshall Online Privacy and Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck

Posted on February 26, 2012 by cj

By reading both articles i can now see and understand that privacy is very important. Facebook was made for college studies when it was first made, now everybody is on it, even high school students and adults. It was really made for keeping in touch with friends that you haven’t seen since high school, junior high, etc. But if you have your profile set to the public for everyone to see then you are in big trouble, i say this because anybody can get your information online that you post up, even your friends that you have, your phone number, email, photos, and more. A lot of us have to realize that even if we do have our profile’s set to private people can still get access to our information, just like Mr.Marshall had stated in his article about Online Privacy, he talked about about cookies and how people can save the link that you went to on the internet and some how get access to your information. It’s always good to clear your history browser on the internet whenever you are on a certain site and when you about to shut down your computer.

It’s good to know about these things for your own safety, because now even the police and the government can know what you are saying just by going on the internet and looking you up on Facebook,Twitter, MySpace, etc. They even have there own Facebook, Twitter and MySpace page. I ask myself all the time if we are safe on the internet no matter where we go on there online, even shopping online using our debit or credit card numbers. Hackers can even get into our information, so we have to be careful no matter what we do. Even Google is changing there privacy settings for people that have a G-Mail account. Facebook is a good site but now it is being commonly known all around the world and is making billions of dollars, it’s hard for people to feel safe online because no matter what you say or do or have privacy on your account. You are still noticeable on your friends page when you comment on there wall or is tagged in a photo with them.

We just have to play things safe when we are online now and use it wisely for our own benefits. I just pray that Facebook will update more on privacy settings to make people feel safe when they are communication online, and i hope that other websites will be more safer when shopping online using their information to purchase things.

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facebooks privacy trainwreck

Posted on February 24, 2012 by ibn4course

In the social networking community people create just enough here say to develop attraction from people who crave undivided attention.

The social networking allows conflict that jeopardize freedom of speech, decision making, and interest. It develops an attacking, manipulating, and compulsive observer to act out. It puts cognitive attentions of abuse into a believers head. And the return of here say usually breaks the speaker’s heart. Like when you give a trainer your calories burned over a networking site, then later on you see your friend from that site blogging about how fat you are… with bold print. The person who listens and observes to the here speaker’s invades and challenges the actions of that speaker.

The undivided attention in the rss feed is cognitive abuse’s gasoline; a metaphor that produces out of the thoughts that ideas are what make fire. When you entertain people with secrets it allows them to minupulate you and abuse you causing anxiety and psychological disorders. So it is very sensible to avoid the characteristic of rss feeds or “respect secret rights feeds”.

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Access to Baker’s article, “How I fell in love with Wikipedia”

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Anne Leonard

The Nicholson Baker article about Wikipedia appeared under a slightly different title in the Guardian in April 2008, and persists on its website, so anyone who felt deprived of Monday’s full experience can read it here. Many thanks to Prof. Beilin!

Baker, Nicholson. “How I Fell in Love with Wikipedia.” the Guardian 10 Apr. 2008. Web. 22 Feb. 2012.
~Prof. L
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Notes from today, and reading and blogging homework for Monday 2/27

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Anne Leonard

Today we discussed access to information: personal and institutional. We also discussed the digital divide; click on infographic thumbnail below to see a full-size version. We also divided into groups to spend time analyzing and summarizing sections from the Martin article.

Digital Divide Infographic courtesy OnlineITDegree.net

For Monday, 2/27, please read Marshall, Online Privacy, and boyd, Facebook’s Privacy Trainwreck. Write one reading response blog post.

Slides from today are available here.

Have a good weekend!

~Prof. L.

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Money Makes the World Go Round

Posted on February 22, 2012 by David R

In the “politics of research” chapter it was interesting to see the age old saying about how “money makes the world go round” brought to new light and applied to something we are all a part of, and that is college and educational institutes in general. The article emphasized the politics of research that is carried out in these institutes and how there exists a hierarchy mainly to “orient research to sources of funding and to disciplinary priorities” In other words, even though there are so many disciples and departments in any given educational  institute, the politics are that if any research being done  isn’t applicable to something (probably military), than less funding will be allocated to it, forcing prestige research to have to struggle to stay afloat. The article makes the reader question the whole idea of “academic freedom” because it isn’t so free as it costs something and that something is influenced greatly by the big powers. It would seem that research and funding is driven by businesses that will throw funding at you but if its to their benefit in the end, forcing researchers to have to find ways to disguise their work or find a way to make it applicable to what the big companies want.

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