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danah boyd :: Publications
for references re social media & privacy, esp among young people.
socialmedia  privacy  facebook 
february 2012 by epersonae
As Banks Start Nosing Around Facebook and Twitter, the Wrong Friends Might Just Sink Your Credit | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
“We make friends with people we barely know!” And yet, that info could be used for virtual redlining? WTF?
socialmedia  finance  creditunion  facebook 
december 2011 by epersonae
Facebook is gaslighting the web. We can fix it. - Anil Dash
"Facebook promotes captive content on its network ahead of content on the web, prohibits users from bringing open content into their network, warns users not to visit web content, and places obstacles in front of visits to web sites"
webdev  facebook  socialmedia 
november 2011 by epersonae
Status conscious? Check out this social media flowchart.
"consult this handy graphic to help make those hard choices among Google+, Foursquare, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter" amusing, and yet, that's basically the heuristic I use. (substitute restaurant for bar, and remove FB as an option.)
socialmedia  funny  personal  facebook  twitter 
november 2011 by epersonae
Why Facebook Is Becoming the Media World's Black Hole | Commentary and analysis from Simon Dumenco - Advertising Age
"The truth about social-media sites is that they've never been particularly great environments for advertising. People immerse themselves in social media because they want to socialize."
marketing  socialmedia  facebook 
october 2011 by epersonae
Op-Ed: Stop Feeding Facebook, It's Time for Moderation
I'll be honest: I'm not sure why regulation couldn't be a part of the answer to this problem.
facebook  privacy 
september 2011 by epersonae
a facebook privacy experiment
I would guess it's from sites that include FB buttons & whatnot.
facebook  privacy  webdev 
september 2011 by epersonae
It’s the end of the web as we know it « Adrian Short
bleak, but I can't argue with the conclusions.
facebook  socialmedia  google  twitter  privacy  webdev 
september 2011 by epersonae
rc3.org - Managing my mistrust of Facebook
This is where I'm at, generally speaking.
facebook  privacy  security  personal 
september 2011 by epersonae
Why Facebook and Google's Concept of 'Real Names' Is Revolutionary - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic
"Let's not pretend that what Google and Facebook are doing has long-established precedents and therefore these companies are only doing what they're doing to mimic real life." A guy who changed his mind walks through some comparisons.
facebook  google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » “Real Names” Policies Are an Abuse of Power
just stay out of the comments. so frustrating.
facebook  google  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
My Name Is Me
"Supporting your freedom to choose the name you use on social networks and other online services."
personal  socialmedia  facebook  google  society  privacy 
august 2011 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space
"In a neoliberal environment, individuals have become corporatized just as corporations have become people. The lines are getting increasingly fuzzy."
society  misctech  facebook  socialmedia  business 
april 2011 by epersonae
Distributed Social Networks - a comic (PDF)
nice simple explanation!
facebook  socialmedia  twitter  blogosphere  webdev 
march 2011 by epersonae
Help Desk : Possible reasons you cannot add a Facebook fan page to HootSuite
"You are using a Facebook business account" - weak.
facebook 
december 2010 by epersonae
8 Recent Updates for Facebook Business Pages | Social Media Today
they finally fixed my biggest annoyance. (not being able to remove the first admin) and the spam filter is working pretty well for my employer's page, which is nice.
facebook 
november 2010 by epersonae
Worker Rights Extend to Facebook, Labor Board Says - NYTimes.com
"the labor board has stepped in to argue that workers’ criticisms of their bosses or companies on a social networking site are generally a protected activity"
facebook  society 
november 2010 by epersonae
Hands-on with RockMelt, the underwhelming and insecure Chrome 6-based Facebook-connected Web browser
"No matter which way you look at it, -FaceMelt- RockMelt is a proprietary browser that's harvesting all of your data -- and for what? Chrome 6 with a bunch of extensions." ugh. requires logging in to FB, too.
browsers  facebook 
november 2010 by epersonae
danah boyd | apophenia » Risk Reduction Strategies on Facebook
"teens who have strategies for managing their online presence that are odd at first blush but make complete sense when you understand the context in which they operate" two girls in rough schools with drastic FB strategies.
facebook  society  privacy 
november 2010 by epersonae
When Are Facebook Users Most Active? [STUDY]
"The biggest spike occurs at 3:00 p.m. ET on weekdays."
facebook 
october 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Groups: Privacy Bait and Switch? | Almost Savvy
blerg. need to remember to move FOL from a group to a page, btw.
library  facebook  privacy 
october 2010 by epersonae
The Social Network, Where Women Never Have Ideas
"It makes you wonder why the filmmakers tried so hard to create a world so hostile and diminishing to women"
facebook  gender  arts  webdev 
october 2010 by epersonae
A Blueprint For Socially Augmented Events: The Seven Stages Recap | Helping improve your annual meetings, conferences & education
crummy formatting, but potentially useful.
ena  library  blogosphere  facebook  reference 
september 2010 by epersonae
Diaspora Developer Release
interesting, looks like it's actually going somewhere. (is it RoR?)
blogosphere  facebook  webdev 
september 2010 by epersonae
The Facebook Reckoning - Anil Dash
In which he expands on the quote in the New Yorker article: "here's even more nuance to my feelings about Facebook than merely remarking on the privilege of its CEO"
facebook  privacy  blogosphere 
september 2010 by epersonae
Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg opens up : The New Yorker
interesting personal story from the author at the end.
facebook  society  privacy 
september 2010 by epersonae
Did Facebook Places Just Cut Facebook Page Growth By 50 Percent?
by tweaking how things appear in user feeds, apparently. jerks.
facebook  marketing 
august 2010 by epersonae
Minimal Competence: Data Access, Data Ownership, and Sharecropping. - Laughing Meme
"With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system." (including comments & notes, which I've worried about) as one of the commenters says, this makes me feel more comfortable using flickr.
privacy  personal  facebook  photography  webdev 
august 2010 by epersonae
Disabling Facebook Connect on Non-Facebook Websites | dhcollier.com
nice, esp if you already have AdBlock installed and don't want to figure out HOST files and whatnot.
facebook  privacy  browsers  webdev 
july 2010 by epersonae
Microsoft Launches Outlook Facebook Integration [Exclusive]
ye gods and little fishes.
facebook  blogosphere  weird  misctech 
july 2010 by epersonae
Pandas and Lobsters: Why Google Cannot Build Social Applications... - ...ifindkarma...
curiously enough, I would like Google to stick to "panda" -- "lobster traps" are why I am so damn wary about Facebook.
google  facebook  psychology  webdev 
july 2010 by epersonae
Scott Andrew - DIY acoustic pop superhero! - Facebook perplexes me…
"People who looked at me cross-eyed ten years ago when I tried to explain to them what a “blog” was are now busy “liking” stuff and posting on walls." indeed.
facebook  blogosphere  weird 
june 2010 by epersonae
Project ‘Gaydar’: An MIT experiment raises new questions about online privacy - The Boston Globe
"Using data from the social network Facebook, they made a striking discovery: just by looking at a person’s online friends, they could predict whether the person was gay."
facebook  privacy  society 
may 2010 by epersonae
Using Social Media to Meet Nonprofit Goals: Idealware's New Report | Gregory Heller | CivicActions
planning to read this, potentially interesting stuff.
nonprofit  facebook  blogosphere  twitter 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Appears To Back Down On Landing Tab Limitations
I guess that's nice, although I stand by my earlier statement.
facebook  marketing 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Limits Landing Tabs To “Authenticated Pages”
"This is a massive blow to smaller companies (or individuals) looking to build their presence through Facebook Pages." GET YOUR OWN WEBSITE, THEN. (I know, there's all kinds of comebacks to that, but whatever.)
facebook  marketing  webdev 
may 2010 by epersonae
Dave Raggett’s Blog » Beyond Facebook, a world of opportunity
Interesting musing, not unlike what I wrote recently. "avoid unwanted leakage across different social groups" aka managing when-worlds-collide moments.
blogosphere  facebook 
may 2010 by epersonae
Profile Watch
display of actual results is helpful, although I like the scoring on the other one.
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Privacy Check
gives you a score, but doesn't make it easy to see exactly what information is public or not. (raw data? not helpful.)
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook
"Changes in default profile settings over time"
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
apophenia » Blog Archive » Facebook and “radical transparency” (a rant)
this 1000 times. (I need to delve into my blog archives to see if I've written anything about what it means to write about private things in public.)
facebook  privacy  psychology  personal 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook, environmental disaster, and the unending war
"I don’t really have time to get into all of that though. I have Facebook privacy crap to talk about." for me, it's that I feel only an immense flailing about with those (more important!) things. :(
facebook  politics  news 
may 2010 by epersonae
How to Quit Facebook Without Actually Quitting Facebook - Facebook - Lifehacker
I imagine I will be doing this soon.
facebook  privacy  to-do 
may 2010 by epersonae
My Favorite Privacy Quotes – A Top Ten Countdown | Librarian by Day
privacy  society  blogosphere  facebook  politics 
may 2010 by epersonae
goblin cartoons » Blog Archive » Facing Down Facebook
"I don’t want a one-stop-shop for all things internet." Josh says it better than I probably would...so there may or may not be a big rambly post about the FB.
facebook 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Protest
I think I'm going to go for June 6 as the day I deactivate. (I haven't yet 100% made up my mind to delete.)
facebook  to-do 
may 2010 by epersonae
The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand « The Jason Calacanis Weblog
"Anyone who trusts Facebook to do the right thing for the industry,
their customers or their application partners simply needs to look at
their history." That sums it up, basically. (And I think Calacanis is kind of a jerk.)
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
join diaspora
"the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network"
facebook  opensource  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
How to Delete Your Facebook Account - O'Reilly Answers
(then u play yahtzee vs a giant tron-like representation of yourself. or something.)
facebook 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook to Add Location This Month, Integrate Brands Later - Advertising Age - Digital
"Marketers Line Up to Try New Updates That Allow Users to Share Their Whereabouts"
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook’s E-mail Censorship is Legally Dubious, Experts Say | Epicenter | Wired.com
"Wired.com confirmed Facebook is blocking private messages by sending a link to a Pirate Bay torrent feed of a book in the public domain."
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative | Epicenter | Wired.com
have been daydreaming about a non profit FB (please steal that idea if you can make it work, btw), but a "loose confederation" sounds nice too.
facebook  privacy  webdev 
may 2010 by epersonae
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook - Facebook - Gizmodo
facebook  privacy 
may 2010 by epersonae
FactoryCity » Understanding the Open Graph Protocol
"Except — shucks — there’s just one problem with this model: it’s evil!"
standards  facebook  webdev 
april 2010 by epersonae
Today Facebook, Tomorrow the World
"The question for many in the days to come is whether you are actually using Facebook to keep in touch with your friends and family, or whether Facebook is just using you."
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline | Electronic Frontier Foundation
"To help illustrate Facebook's shift away from privacy, we have highlighted some excerpts from Facebook's privacy policies over the years." boiling frog, anyone?
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
EFF Explains New Facebook Jargon (Serious Alert) - Kathy Gill's posterous
argggggghhhhhh.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
SSWI — Facebook: Considered Harmful
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
zestyping: The new Facebook API exposes the events that some users attend to anyone on the Internet.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
HOW TO: Disable Facebook's "Instant Personalization" [PRIVACY]
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
How Facebook won the web - CNN.com
gnashing of teeth.
facebook  society  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
iA » iA’s 2006 Facebook Designs, Redesigned
I'll tell you why they didn't use it: no ads, no focus on roping in all your damn friends.
design  facebook 
april 2010 by epersonae
Wikileaks Fan Page Pulled Down for Being "Inauthentic," Says Facebook | techPresident
facebook 
april 2010 by epersonae
Google, Facebook & Privacy « Screenwerk
"More broadly Facebook is stepping up its plan to insinuate itself into every corner of the Internet." ugh. need to find a way out of FB.
facebook  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Further Reduces Your Control Over Personal Information | Electronic Frontier Foundation
I don't think I have cuss words strong enough for facebook anymore.
facebook  blogosphere  privacy 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebookipedia? Here come 'Community Pages' | The Social - CNET News
:(
facebook  society  blogosphere  webdev 
april 2010 by epersonae
twitterfeed.com : feed your blog to twitter
this vs the drupal twitter module
twitter  facebook 
april 2010 by epersonae
Facebook | Help Center
weak.
facebook 
march 2010 by epersonae
SXSW preview: Social business content management made easier | Social Business | ZDNet.com
sounds fascinating, but $2k a MONTH? Uh, no.
socialmedia  facebook  marketing 
march 2010 by epersonae
Has blogging peaked? / The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
long quote from Dylan. I find that long-form blogging still has a big draw for me.
blogosphere  writing  facebook 
march 2010 by epersonae
How Facebook Was Founded
what a jerk.
facebook  privacy 
march 2010 by epersonae
Drew McLellan - The Marketing Minute:
social media cheat sheet
marketing  facebook  blogosphere 
march 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Patents The News Feed (Updated)
f*&#$ers.
facebook  blogosphere  misctech 
february 2010 by epersonae
SSRN-'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy by Daniel Solove
kinda dry, but interesting. there's a paragraph on p769 that I might want to write more about.
politics  privacy  security  google  facebook 
february 2010 by epersonae
Suppertime Sonnets: In Which Mockery Is (I Hope) Gently Rebuked
"A fragile grasp on how things really work/Online or off is much the common thing." strangely lovely.
writing  weird  facebook  webdev 
february 2010 by epersonae
Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login
Reading comprehension FAIL! "Dear visitors from Google. This site is not Facebook. This is a website called ReadWriteWeb that reports on news about Facebook and other Internet services."
weird  google  facebook 
february 2010 by epersonae
Google Buzz and contacts silos (and privacy and spam) | rare pattern
I have the same sense of hesitation. (Facebook has been problematic for me for many of the same reasons.)
blogosphere  google  facebook  society  psychology 
february 2010 by epersonae
Is it possible to opt out of social networking? « Not The User’s Fault
file under: things that continue to wig me out. "It’s not too much of a stretch to say that they have been profiting off of me, without my knowledge or consent, using information about me that was given away by my friends, again without my knowledge or consent."
facebook  privacy 
february 2010 by epersonae
The 3 Facebook Settings Every User Should Check Now - NYTimes.com
"Considering that Facebook itself is no longer looking out for you, it's time to be proactive about things and look out for yourself instead." maybe that should read "Facebook HAS NEVER LOOKED OUT FOR YOU" but anyway, good tips.
privacy  facebook  blogosphere 
january 2010 by epersonae
What Does Facebook's Privacy Transition Mean for You? | ACLUNC dotRights
reasonably clear explanation of the new settings. now there's no "only FB users" setting? "everyone" really does equal EVERYONE.
facebook  security  privacy  blogosphere  society 
december 2009 by epersonae
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