Privacy
When you’re surrounded by strangers, it can be hard to strike up a conversation. Presumably, things would be easier if you already knew something about some of those people. But what if that knowledge actually made you more reluctant to start a conversation? That’s what I’m wondering about Meet Gatsby, a Foursquare-related program that connects [...]
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Last night, while I was conducting a Social Media 101 workshop at Baltimore’s Creative Alliance, my Twitter account was hijacked… by my girlfriend. I’d logged in on her laptop before the workshop began, and then I forgot to logout. Since she’d accompanied me to the workshop, she suddenly found herself with two free hours to [...]
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For the past decade, we’ve all felt increasing pressure to “join the conversation.” Companies and communicators alike have been advised to bring their messaging to the people and service them “where they are,” rather than the now-passé tradition of expecting the people to come to you. This approach has resulted in a cacophony of competing [...]
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Yesterday, I said you need to be interesting if you want to get paid to be yourself. But producing content that others willingly pay for is only one way to make a living online. What people fail to realize is that everything you do online is part of a living resume. As Doug Derda, the [...]
Last week, I wrote about Spokeo, a service that lets people who barely know you find out more about you than either of you might realize. But the problem isn’t the service itself — it’s our expectations of privacy, and our intentions for wanting privacy in the first place. As Ian M. Rountree writes in [...]
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