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  • R Rama Krishna Vavilala

    Christopher Duncan wrote:

    What amazes me is the casual manner in which people type private information into a web site

    Yes! Like this one guy, told everyone about his dating days with a stripper dancer. ;)

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    Christopher Duncan
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    You actually believe that stuff? :-D

    Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services

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    • C Caslen

      Rage wrote:

      My kid will be seeking a job in about 20 years from now. We do not know how society evolves, maybe one thing he did as a child in the video that seems perfectly normal today will be considered completely disrespectful in twenty years

      By the same argument it might mark him out as an oddball-weirdo because there are no photos or videos of him on the net. You won't win any prizes trying to predict the future.

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      Actually, that kid can always put his pictures online. Then. And if he wants to. --jeroen

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      • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

        I agree. Don't ever publish anything you are not willing to stand up for, be it on the web, or a book. The Internet has brought an openness and transparency that has never been seen before. I'm hoping it'll do more good than harm in the long run.

        -- Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit

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        Andreas Mertens
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        In our last provincial election (British Columbia, Canada), there was a new young candidate with the opposition party that had was looked at a up and comer. But then some inappropriate photos (him manhandling a young ladies breasts) from his facebook page started making the rounds in the news, and he ended up having to drop out of the election. I also found that when I applied for my last fulltime job with a large company, not only did they check all my references, but they also reviewed various social networking sites about myself. Moral of the story: don't post anything that might embarrass you later in life, or deal with the consequences.

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        • C Christopher Duncan

          Read a couple of articles this morning from the /. feed about Facebook's new privacy settings, their implications, yada, yada. One was an interview with an alleged Facebook employee. I say alleged because Internet articles by and large bear no resemblance to traditional journalism in terms of credibility. My mother's pet fish could write an article stating that someone in a position of political power sacrifices small children nightly. That wouldn't make it true. But I digress... The thing in these articles that really got me thinking was the way that people use social media indeed web sites in general. The Facebook interview article talked about the fact that every scrap of information, including all of your actions, clicks, etc., was stored forever in the database. As a geek, my gut level response to that was, "Well, duh." Of course they store everything under the sun in the db. If it can be done, it will be done. What amazes me is the casual manner in which people type private information into a web site, as though it is somehow protected because in version 1.0 you don't see any avenue for it to be displayed beyond the bounds of what you intended. But there it is, in the database like a ticking time bomb, just waiting for some bright eyed developer to use that data as a "feature" in 2.0. A company has an agenda of its own, which likely has very little in common with yours. This is the same thing that makes me shake my head about the cloud hype. We are becoming accustomed to indiscriminately placing our data on other people's machines at an ever increasing rate. I'm not a fan of the cloud cult, but businesses might at least give some thought to having their data held hostage or worse, leaked to the public. To the average person on Facebook, this isn't even a minor consideration. People pour their hearts out, revealing highly personal and potentially damaging information, into a database belonging to a company. If I was going to add a new example of stupidity to the dictionary, this would be my first choice. Of course, human stupidity is nothing new, and we all love to laugh at the Darwin awards because so much of it is obviously, well, stupid. What concerns me is the cultural shift that paints blatantly stupid acts as perfectly normal. You'll probably never see a Darwin award about someone who spewed too much personal stuff into someone else's database because increasingly, we just consider that normal behavior. And I'm not even sure there's anything that can be done about it in terms of edu

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          Trevortni
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          Christopher Duncan wrote:

          someone in a position of political power sacrifices small children nightly.

          What? :omg: No way, really? Who does this, exactly, and why hasn't it gotten onto all the other blogs I never stop reading yet? Oooh, better start hitting that Refresh button PRONTO!

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