At the very least they should all make wall posts that say simple things like, "hello, my friend" as a control. I bet they'll see the same percentage "missing".
This. The experiment means nothing if there is no control post to test the typical rate of post "deletion."
It just goes to show you. All information that leaves your brain out of your mouth can potentially be shared with the entire world. As soon as another human being knows the information, the whole world might as well know it. We can not fight this reality. Instead, we must adapt to it. If we don't, we're going to have a really hard time when mind reading comes to be. And it will.
Facebook was created by the CIA in order to store all of our personal information and track anyone who doesn't completely agree with the government, to keep the American people complacent, weak, and unthinking. Don't you idiots know anything?
What I am totally bemused about is that Facebook is not charity, it is a business and needs to make profit; but people treat it like it operates just for them. They are getting a totally free service and they still act like Facebook works for them. If you are so fucking paranoid about your information security or internal censorship, you should either
Set up your own social network with your own server and data protection(try StatusNet).
Pay someone to do the above.
People act like the net is a charity. It is not, Facebook needs to make money, so what if it offends your free speech principals. It is like me inviting you to a party and asking you to leave when you insult me. You want to insult me? Have your own goddamn party. Meanwhile all my other guests will wait till I can't hear them to bad mouth me. God people, I thought geeks where a little smarter than this.
That is the one thing my Dad said to me when I started using the internet, "Anything you post there is going to find its way into the hands of the people you least want to see it." Kinda true about all secrets really.
I remember something from about 5 or 6 years ago that really sums it up and that I've thought about often times... "When you're on line, act as if you're mom is looking over your left shoulder and a cop is looking over your right shoulder".. Sure, that may be a bit excessive, but remembering that seems to keep things in perspective sometimes... For FB, I suppose it would be more like "a perspective employer" instead of your mom....
"When you're on line, act as if you're mom is looking over your left shoulder and a cop is looking over your right shoulder"
Not entirely accurate. You should pretend that mom and the cops are snooping the wire. If you encrypt, it's all good.
Yes this is true.. but I think that the saying was more about "be careful about your choices" more than "everyone can see what you're doing"... but I could be wrong..
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http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/02/the-digital-closet.html
It just goes to show you. All information that leaves your brain out of your mouth can potentially be shared with the entire world. As soon as another human being knows the information, the whole world might as well know it. We can not fight this reality. Instead, we must adapt to it. If we don't, we're going to have a really hard time when mind reading comes to be. And it will.
- Set up your own social network with your own server and data protection(try StatusNet).
- Pay someone to do the above.
People act like the net is a charity. It is not, Facebook needs to make money, so what if it offends your free speech principals. It is like me inviting you to a party and asking you to leave when you insult me. You want to insult me? Have your own goddamn party. Meanwhile all my other guests will wait till I can't hear them to bad mouth me. God people, I thought geeks where a little smarter than this.