johnny won

I feel like a bad person but this is really fun to play. It shows a ton about: 

1. The illusion of our privacy.
2. The things people will say behind closed doors. 
3. The power of aggregation. 

soupsoup:

buzzfeed:

ADD YOURS: The Best OpenBook Facebook Searches

Facebook is overhauling its privacy settings soon, so we should take advantage of the gloriousness that is OpenBook while we still can. HERE IS YOUR TASK: Go to OpenBook. Pick something awesome to search for and post a screenshot of the best status update you find in the comments. Here’s mine. Add your own right now!

Email snoopers on corporate networks are sniffing to see if groups of employees are engaging in illicit behaviors but it also seems to be a bit intrusive with false-positives. 

Right now we’re in a situation where anything in email is pretty much fair game, how long until everything typed is fair game? 

I’m a bit surprised this wasn’t done before but it’s a smart move for Facebook to tap such a prominent member of the privacy advocacy community. This can also be seen as an indication of the growing maturity of social networking and the need for growing lobbiyst bodies to push Facebook’s agenda appropriately in DC and avoid Microsoftonian disasters.

The comments have a great running commentary about the Parents+Kids interaction on Facebook. Dad needs to re-connect with his alumni base, kids have to face the person who pays the bills and a careful discussion of privacy discussions persist.