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Tag Archives: privacy
Facebook 110: Protecting Privacy in Facebook
In “What’s Wrong with this Picture?” I made an analogy that relates to a situation I think is all too common: people who express anxiety about their privacy in Facebook, but who haven’t taken advantage of the privacy protections Facebook offers. It’s like playing goalie in the National Hockey League without a mask, and then [...]
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What’s wrong with this picture?
Meet Gump Worsely, who played goalie in the National Hockey League. Gump was famous for playing without a mask and helmet long after almost everyone else in pro hockey had adopted this protection. Slap shots would fly at his face at speeds often exceeding 100 miles per hour, but as Wikipedia says (so we know [...]
Facebook 211: Friend Lists
In Facebook 210, a course developed over two years ago, I described how to use friend lists to make Facebook your all-purpose networking platform. Back then, Facebook had “only” 100 million active users. Now it’s over 500 million. And over the last couple of years there have been changes to the site and resulting controversies [...]
On Kids and Social Network Privacy
Yesterday I was contacted by Mary Brophy Marcus of USA Today for comment and perspective related to a survey of parents and teens on online privacy. I’ve included an excerpt of the resulting article below: Three out of four parents (75%) say they would negatively rate the job social networks are doing, according to the [...]
Posted in News Media, Social Media Also tagged Lee Aase, Mary Brophy Marcus, Online Privacy, Teen Privacy, USA Today 3 Comments
Facebook 111: Customized Facebook Privacy Settings