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Citation: boyd, danah. 2009. "Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social Media." Supernova and Le Web. San Francisco and Paris, 1 and 10 December 2009. Today's talk is about visibility, about the power of what you can see and whether or not you are looking.
"Do you See What I See?: Visibility of Practices through Social
WhyForgotten Facebook Twitter apps
How many apps have you connected to your Facebook and Twitter accounts over the years? It may be may more that you think – and they could have the potential to be real trouble. Just think of all those fun little Facebook apps you signed up for, tried once and then forgot about.
Facebook’s New Privacy Push Concerns Experts
That didn’t take long. Just 24 hours after Facebook began rolling out a privacy announcement and settings tool to its more than 350 million users, a number of privacy experts and security firms are already out with statements advising against using the social network’s new recommended settings, which encourage users to share more data with “everyone.” The issue, as we highlighted yesterday, is that while Facebook is spinning the changes as “setting a new standard in user control,” another goal is clearly getting users to share more information publicly, which makes its search partnerships with Google and Bing all the more valuable. And security experts are seeing right through it.
Facebook Privacy Fiasco Begins
Today Facebook finally started to roll out a new set of privacy controls. These tools, many months in the making, are designed to help simplify the site’s notoriously confusing privacy options. But alongside them Facebook is also rolling out a “Transition Tool” that promotes Everyone updates as the new default. In other words, Facebook is giving up its reputation as a ‘private’ social network — where the default is to restrict access to everything that is shared — in favor of something that can challenge Twitter head on. And, as I wrote last July, it may well be a disaster in the making.
Earlier this week I wrote a post about how I didn't like that I couldn't alter the Facebook Connect privacy settings for updates from Foursquare , an iPhone app that shares my location through a GPS-enabled city directory . It didn't make sense to me that Facebook Connect information was automatically visible to anyone who had access to posts on my "wall," whereas privacy settings on a third-party app embedded directly on my profile were much more fine-tuned, allowing me to restrict them to specific subsets of friends. I've been e-mailing back and forth with Facebook, and I've gotten some clarification on how the process works.
Facebook app privacy: It's complicated | The Social - CNET News
