NetFamilyNews.orgDid you know that we parents are pretty darn engaged with the young social media users at our houses? To our credit, I feel, most of us are folding social media into our parenting, the Pew Internet researchers report. For example – although high school student Jake tells his friend that he’s “probably the only [...]
The “news” that people’s private Facebook messages were appearing on their “walls” spread like wildfire earlier this week, but Slate reports that it’s more meme than news. It all started in France, where users complained about finding private messages posted between 2007 and ’09 on their profiles pages, but news outlets reported that “the issue [...]
The US Federal Trade Commission has just announced its proposed changes for the 10-year-old Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the law that inadvertently created the social Web’s “minimum age” of 13 (in its effort to define an age when all children are developmentally able to protect their own privacy). Because COPPA requires children’s sites and [...]
Not another privacy-settings update, but not purely cosmetic – this is a better organized, more readable guide to privacy (and publicity) on Facebook.
The next step may be users joining Web sites in deriving value from the use of their own data.
Last week privacy commissioners in 10 countries released a public letter to Google about their problems with the release of Buzz (Google has made significant changes to Buzz in the privacy area since its release). In a commentary in the Toronto Star, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist wrote that “the joint effort may [...]
“If I were still an unpopular 12-year-old, my first ChatRoulette session might have crushed me for a year instead of just an hour,” writes Sam Anderson in New York magazine in the mildest possible description of a site that Brad Stone of the New York Times just discovered was created by a 17-year-old in Moscow. [...]
Don’t miss Julia Anguin’s Wall Street Journal blog post about how “friending” has gone from knowing what the kid three rows back thinks about the latest celeb news to a popularity contest to, now with Twitter, a “talent show” among “followers” (who are much less complicated than “friends”) – or how “to prove your intellectual [...]
Facebook has been known to make a few waves when it announces changes to privacy features, so it’s probably hoping that, now with more than 350 million users, the latest changes won’t make a tsunami. This week’s redesign, which has been in the works since last summer, is meant to both simplify things and give [...]
Why do people share innermost thoughts, unretouched photos, and rants and what they ate for lunch in texts, photos, and blogs? And why is this not just a narcissistic passing fad like streaking or something, a baby boomer, someone who grew up with mass media, might ask? Consider this: “In part, it is the very [...]
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