The other day, one of my favorite Facebook Fan Pages posted the following quote from Mashable’s CEO and founder, Pete Cashmore: “Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.” Is social media responsible for our loss of privacy? Ramblings Social Media facebook privacy social media twitter” This statement bothers me. It bothers me because it attributes motives to the wrong culprit. often say that social media does not have [.] was written by Cendrine Marrouat for her social media blog, Creative Ramblings. MORE >>

This guest post covers privacy tips of those using Facebook. The icon,of a globe, two heads or padlock, present on the right corner of every post indicates the privacy icon through which you can either set the privacy settings or change them. Though, privacy settings will help you in deciding what you want to show your friends and which friends, in particular. Another aspect of privacy is limiting which friends can post on your wall. The feature basically helps you to fill out the loop holes in case any exist in your privacy settings. Activity Log. MORE >>

Not just that, but the default privacy setting on Google+ is nothing. In a sense, this puts Google Circles at a greater risk to putting Twitter out of business, as it takes the Twitter follow model and lists, and adds privacy settings to it, using those lists to make that happen. They took privacy, and put it smack in the face of the user to make their own conscious decisions. It greets you every step of the way and that's quite a pleasant thing to see in a world of growing privacy concerns. Technology google+ social google plus privacyIt's that simple. MORE >>

We ended up having a great conversation about online privacy, which was made all the more interesting by the students relating their experiences firsthand. In order to start up a conversation about privacy, I explained Foursquare, and how people “check in” at Starbucks, the movies, work, etc., This opened a really interesting discussion about privacy, and the data collected by sites like Webkinz, Nick Jr., The “answer” to the child privacy issue can only be found at home. Tags: Social Media children COPPA Online Privacy online privacy Poptropica, etc. MORE >>

Insights klout privacyA couple of months back, I wrote about online influence tool Klout , and their approach to how they build their membership (they use opt-out profiling, versus the more widely-used opt-in). The main concern I had was the fact it was so difficult to leave Klout if you didn’t want to be seen as endorsing their product. As of today, two months later, my profile is still live, despite requests to be removed. sent an email back to Joe, but haven’t heard back yet – understandable, I can appreciate he’s busy. Thanks for listening, Danny. MORE >>