Facebook Killed the Private Life

You live your life online — and anyone can read it. Should employers be able to troll your Facebook or myspace page? Or should everything that you put online be accessible to anyone, anywhere? With increasingly popular social networking sites aggregating unprecedented volumes of personal data, the age-old issue of online privacy is once again rearing its ugly head. We ask NYU professor and social networking expert Clay Shirky (watch the full interview with Clay Shirky here) where to draw the line between personal and public online.

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15 comments

  1. When it comes down to the internetz, there is NO privacy what so ever. Even with the “private” setting turned on, it is still vulnerable to hacks & I’m pretty sure can be bypassed & viewed by people working on the Facebook servers. Simply don’t put anything up you don’t want people to know, but then again, even the not so sensitive info can still be viewed by others you don’t know. Even cops, CIA, FBI, & Corporations, etc. can get their hands on it all.

  2. If you do not want it known do not tell anyone or post it on facebook, myspace, email or any other thing connected with the internet. If you do and it gets out then stop your bitching.

  3. at the same time its your choice to have an account and to share information……if you don’t want to then don’t do it plain and simple

  4. even google searches

  5. even google searches n stuff?

  6. here in sweden everyone are allowed to know anyones personal security number. you just have to ask the tax register and they will give it to you. along with income relatives and all that.

    that means anyone that even tells his/hers name can be looked up to every detail easily and even be used in an ID-theft on almost any webshop

  7. facebook is pointless

    I have a phone,, MSN, EMAIL….you really need more ways of contacting somebody ?

    If I have pics i want share and we are friends i can send those pics to you via email in seconds and those pics will stay pvt

    i dont need friends of friends of friends of friends looking at them

  8. I know a guy who was in court for drinking and driving…he hit somebody and injured them

    he claimed how remorseful he was and the judge bought it

    But the lawyer of the victim found pics on the accused facebook page of him knockig back beers few days after the accident

    BUSTED lol

    a pic can say a thousand words

    reality is ppl will look for u on facebook if they want to find stuff about you

    privacy is a good thing

  9. I have nothing to hide.

  10. alright so then I guess you wont mind if I watch you next time you take a shit

  11. It wouldn’t bother me. Why would you want to?

  12. I’m a fan of Shirky and I usually favor his ideas, but I am not concerned with people judging me based on my facebook usage. Last time I checked, it is entirely up to the user to decide what info is displayed publicly. Everything is coming out into the open now. While it may be an uncomfortable transition, this is a step toward human unity and increased appreciation for diversity since we can share both our character flaws and our virtues without hiding behind perfectionist shams and pretense

  13. XXISimplicityXXI

    Like the time they find a criminal on WoW info

  14. Im under freaking 18, i dont have a boss, i dont care if 1 of my teachers looks at my fb. If i do have something private i will turn on friends only and only let them see it.

  15. EZDIA is also a networking site where you Signup and Start Earning , as well as you can create your own Knowledge Bucket and Post content and get Paid for that.

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