Facebook C&D’s Gawker for showing super-secret profiles – Valleywag
Facebook C&D’s Gawker for showing super-secret profiles – Valleywag: this is amazingly stupid to me. Kids these says, whom I call the Survey Generation, expose to the world anything and everything about themselves through quantification of personal data into imposed dimensions on a website. Facebook institutes some privacy, but only for the implication of “friend” through a mutual, computer mediated agreement. And their response to someone taking said data and exposing it to a wider audience is a C&D? Data is data people. Representation of data is also data. If a kid is willing to jump around naked (metaphorically) on the web via Facebook/MySpace/LiveJournal, who’s to say that there is any implication of privacy at all?