Maybe Ask should give Facebook an award for privacy education
By Simon Bisson & Mary Branscombe in Editorial
Posted in Privacy, Identity, Security, Internet on
I’m not a big Facebook fan. Part of it is that I’ve seen a lot of online communities, from Usenet and the uniquely British CIX to AOL and Web forums and IRC and LiveJournal andLinked in - and the evolution of online behaviour that occurs in all of them is the same. Food fights and virtual flowers replace SIG files and ASCII art but a me-too meme is the same whether it’s plain text or fancy CSS (and don’t get me started on second life because that’s a whole ‘nother rant).
But I’m not an online Luddite. I live in email and IRC. Simon and I met online (in a virtual bar,
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