Enjoying the free drinks as Mayor of this, that or the other coffee shop or restaurant?
Ever thought that giving away your location on Twitter or 4sq can be dangerous?
The guys at PleaseRobMe.com did and they make a very obvious point.
The danger is publicly telling people where you are.
This is because it leaves one place you’re definitely not… home. So here we are; on one end we’re leaving lights on when we’re going on a holiday, and on the other we’re telling everybody on the internet we’re not home. It gets even worse if you have “friends” who want to colonize your house. That means they have to enter your address, to tell everyone where they are. Your address.. on the internet…[...] The goal of this website is to raise some awareness on this issue and have people think about how they use services like Foursquare, Brightkite, Google Buzz etc.
We all know by now that privacy in the world of social networks is an issue, right?
Facebook offers us privacy settings to hide our status from lists of “friends” or a particular “friend”.
Why would you hide something from your friends?
Oh, wait… they’re not ALL your REAL friends.
Having a presence on a social network automatically implies that you are the only one responsible for the information you post out there and if there’s things that you don’t want the world to see, then, may I suggest that you can simply refrain from posting them?!
And what if your “friends” post something about you that you wanted hidden?
Did you ever dream about becoming a celebrity?
Well, hey-ho… now you know how it feels to be one!
Facebook and the rest of the social networking sites out there could help by implementing a policy whereby an individual cannot be named or tagged in a photo, a status update or a note etc. without their prior consent. But other than that it’s all up to you!
The latest LG anti-bullying campaign talks about “giving it a ponder” when texting and maybe we should follow that advice when posting something up online.
Despite all the controversy surrounding this topic, people tend to tell the truth about themselves on their Facebook profiles. The study carried out by Black et al. (2010) suggests that Facebook Profiles Reflect Actual Personality, Not Self-Idealization:
These results suggest that people are not using their OSN (online social network) profiles to promote an idealized virtual identity. Instead, OSNs might be an efficient medium for expressing and communicating real personality, which may help explain their popularity.
What do you think?
