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The Unfriendliness of Kid-Friendly Social Networks

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Everyone’s talking about the launch of Togetherville , a social network designed to bring parents and their kids together with the goal of learning responsible social networking. In other words, they are not using a social network. The idea is not to teach them to use social networks.

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Judge Confirms: You Have No Privacy. Get Over It.

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My old boss, Scott McNealy, former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said , in 2003, “You have no privacy. Brown points out that from a legal standpoint, this statement is both puzzling and unnecessary, but it is nonetheless indicative of a general sentiment that there is no longer any reasonable expectation of online privacy.

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Five Things to Do About Facebook Privacy Other Than Closing Your Account

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Sure you’re ticked off about Facebook’s abuses of consumer privacy, but does closing your account accomplish anything? Facebook should not make it so hard to maintain personal privacy and should not make clandestine changes to its privacy settings. Read Facebook’s own Privacy page. Inform Your Friends.

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Social Network Mass Unfollowing is an Empty Gesture

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Recently a couple of people told me they were thinking about unfollowing all of their social network friends and starting over. Sometimes it’s done as a “grand gesture&# to convey to the world that the quality of social network relationships matters more than the quantity. Just keep it to yourself.

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Foursquare Driving Media Paranoia Fun Fest

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Mainstream media are having a field day scaring consumers into thinking that criminals are preying on users of social networks that disclose their geographic locations. And in fact, these indicators are much more accurate than a social network check-in, which can be faked or time delayed. I’m ruined!&# Absolutely.

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Facebook: Too Big to Fail

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You have to wonder why the Obama administration isn’t hinting at a bailout for Facebook in the event that the social network’s latest privacy kerfuffle threatens the very vitality of the global poking grid. It will back down on a few missteps, tweak the privacy settings, and update its privacy agreement.

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Harmless Twitter Prank or Malicious Act?

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This serves as a reminder of the potential privacy risks of social networking. Tags: Blogging Social Media privacy tos Twitter TOS twitter. People may not realize that every tweet is visible across the web the instant it’s published.

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