I just think they were damn smart. I agree with this quotation:
“…once Facebook goes public sometime in the next year or so. One thing’s for sure, however: the dotcom bubble just got bigger than ever. Get ready for another wild ride.”
Been there once… and looking forward for another!
Do you agree with this?
“I just celebrated my ten-year blogging anniversary. I started blogging when I was 19, and before that, I regularly posted to public mailing lists, message boards, and Usenet. I grew up with this technology, and I’m part of the generation that should be embarrassed by what we posted. But I’m not—those posts are part of my past, part of who I am…..”
Read more of this posting from danah boyd. It is another and extremely interesting viewpoint on the issue of how our reputation could be influenced by our online activities, particularly when it refers to today’s teenagers and what they want to achieve tomorrow. Reading this I wonder if it is us, are we -my generation and older- just too inhibited by society norms… and the online social networking space is just throwing these to the wind! Maybe it’s a good thing?
Does anyone really believe this?
Facebook users tend to be more affluent, with its users skewing towards households earning over $60,000 per year, while MySpace users skew toward lower income levels, with 12% more of its users earning under $60,000 per year. Using the psychographic system Mosaic to track U.S. Internet users, it’s clear that there’s a class distinction between users of the two social networks. Facebook’s most predominant group of visitors in Mosaic is “affluent suburbia,” a group that Mosaic describes as “the wealthiest households in the U.S., living in exclusive suburban neighborhoods enjoying the best that life has to offer.” The predominant group for MySpace, on the other hand, is “struggling societies,” or households that are primarily single parent, single income, raising families on lower incomes and tight budgets. Read more…
Interesting, I wonder what comes next?
Hi, here is an example that has received significant publicity in Canada on how your reputation in your physical life can been influenced by your online activities. Online activities in this article are in Facebook, and the people concerned are recruits to become Border Control Guards. What is interesting is that this may have passed by unnoticed if it wasn’t for some data-mining done by a Border Guard (who worked only temporarily) who was passed over for a permanent post by these young cheaper recruits.
Do you believe that young people, are less concerned with maintaining privacy than older people? It is an interesting thought and one that has been growing on me for some time now. Lauren discusses this and provides some interesting links.
My copy has just arrived. This is an incredible thought-provoking book. If you are a blogger, just buy it. In the future it will be known as the book!
If you have a Facebook profile you should check out your security settings. Check out the article from Computer Weekly on the experiment that Sophos conducted.
This article from the Time magazine looks at another aspect of Web 2.0.
Remus Lupin sat in the chair in the teacher’s lounge closest to the coffee booth. He stirred his magically around with a finger, taking a long sigh in and a long sigh out. He knew that tomorrow he would start feeling ill again (since it was only three days from the full moon), and he really didn’t feel like getting sick. He ran his fingers through his light brown hair and looked deep within the black, bitter coffee with a blank expression.
The work of Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling will live on for generations to come. Only, those aren’t Rowling’s words. They’re Candeh’s, a writer on fanfiction.net who’s penned three books based on Harry Potter…..
The current craze around consumer-generated media didn’t start with Youtube, MySpace or even with blogging. Go back almost 600 years. In 1421, for example, John Lydgate, perhaps longing for just one more tale, wrote an obscure piece entitled The Siege of Thebes, a continuation of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The 1970s saw the dawn of fanzines, a pre-Internet form of user participation albeit distributed on mimeograph paper….
Chris Kelly, 36, is the vice president and chief privacy officer of Facebook, a popular social-networking Web site with 28 million active users. He recently answered some questions about security and privacy issues for users of the site. You may find them interesting to see how privacy within the context of social networking is becoming a subject matter in its own right.