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

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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. All of the social networking leaders have stumbled. Facebook has made one privacy screw-up after another.

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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. Regulators are still mostly uncertain as to how current laws apply to social media/networking.

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McLuhan, Socrates and Edith Wharton On Social Media

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In an effort to better understand the social media phenomenon, it often helps to turn to experts in the field. But I’m not talking about social media gurus or mavens, or people with 20,000 followers on Twitter. The merger of our personal and business lives in a single social networking “presence” has its problems, too.