All this talk about privacy reminds me of the revolution. Back in the sixties and shortly thereafter, plenty of part-time JC stoonts were against whatever was, and they met in groups over coffee at the Student Union and said so. They also talked about how their phones were all tapped and FBI agents were peeking at them through subterranean curtains every minute of the day.
The Freedom of Information Act allowed them years after to seek out their various CIA dossiers, which were universally nonexistant, for what interest had the gumint in duds who only sat around talking? The revvies could not understand why come it was the Karl Marx of Chaney County had failed to arouse the slightest attention.
A greater fear than being watched is being ignored.
Holy crap, they've also made changing your multi-layered privacy settings a confusing marathon. I want that half-hour back I just spent double-checking everything, and I know there's still options I missed...
@unclevanya: Yeah, like ... if you want to set up your new Privacy Settings to be For Reals, you have to find your name on the list and Opt In. That list is three hundred and fifty million long, and not alphabetical.
@Swifter: It's only part that I can't restrict others from finding my name and photo - although I'm not cool with that being available to anyone on the internet, it'd be relatively hard to find. It's that I can't prevent my friends from making their friends available to anyone who can see their profile, meaning anyone who can see my friends' profiles can see me, including people who frankly don't need to know where I live or what I look like now.
@Rozelle’s Bagman: I was just gonna complain to ol' Mark over there about that. There should be an option to buy about a hundred faux-friends when you log on, with celebrities going for a premium.
TechCrunch covers the industry gossip better than almost anyone else, but there's one way they get this story right. So come on, Ryan, show us what you're made of. Arrington's post is fishy as hell.
I was just about to email this to you, Ryan. Of course, I should have known that you'd already be on top of it.
I wonder if Popular Mechanics is going to release a statement, or if they'll go the Perez Hilton route (Castro) and just never speak of the incident again.
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I wonder if Popular Mechanics is going to release a statement, or if they'll go the Perez Hilton route (Castro) and just never speak of the incident again.
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