It’s pretty simple what’s going on, now that I’ve had a chance to think. Facebook’s ethos is ‘radical transparency’ Everything should be shared All information should be free We should share all our information This would make us all equal This is why: we have the News Feed the privacy default is public Facebook is built […]
1. Just check your frickin’ privacy settings. You’ll be happier knowing that your profile is locked down and no nasty corporations are stealing your thoughts. Use this thingamyjig
From Steven O’Hear at TechCrunch Europe, my eyes popped out of my head when I read this – and it’s a feature, not a flaw. As an example, a privacy quirk on Facebook appears to produce the following scenario: User A sends a friend-request to user B but they choose not to accept, at least […]
No more than twice the number archaeologically extrapolated from primates’ brains and but no less than would make a genetically unstable population! Otherwise people will think you are a narcissist or otherwise socially undesirable … which mightn’t be nice One factor that makes social networking rather different from offline socialising – and what seems to […]
What are you actually doing, adding all those randoms? It seems that Facebook friendships are related to something called ‘social capital’ – you might say you’re stocking up on party dollars! But they’re probably not going to be much use… This research, from Nicole Ellison, Charles Steinfield and Cliff Lampe (2007, honestly didn’t make that […]