Get Behind the Shield! Hotspot Shield by AnchorFree. Tor: anonymity online. Facebook. Young people do, and they might just care about privacy more than the adults who care for them. That's what I pick up (with all caveats r.e. my reading between lines as well as on them) from the fascinating research on late teens and privacy that danah boyd has published with Estzter Hargittai: Overall, our data show that far from being nonchalant and unconcerned about privacy matters, the majority of young adult users of Facebook are engaged with managing their privacy settings on the site at least to some extent......Based on data collected in early Fall 2009, Pew found that 71 percent of the 18–29–year–old social network site users they surveyed reported changing their privacy settings while only 62 percent of those 30–49 and 55 percent of those between the ages of 50–64 had.
Above all, I'm increasingly aware of how little research we have in Scotland, in the UK and further afield into how young people approach social networking in our countries. How-to: Effectively manage your Facebook privacy settings with three simple lists. I used to love Facebook. I was in law school at Wisconsin when it launched, and everyone I knew on the site was basically a peer -- people who I'd known well or at least met in person at some point.
Then... I graduated. Suddenly having a Facebook account full of pictures from blurry nights in Madison and Pulitzer Prize-caliber dirty jokes from my friends wasn't so awesome anymore -- especially once I started working for Engadget and lots and lots of people I didn't actually know (or, somewhat even worse, only knew professionally) started looking at my personal page. Luckily, it's not so hard to do -- you just have to make effective use of a Facebook feature called Lists. Step one is the easiest step -- you just need to make the lists. That'll take you to a large list of your friends, and at the top you'll see "Create New List," like so: Hit Create New List, and the list editor will pop up. Our system involves just three main lists: Okay, so now you've assigned all your content to lists.