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+- Does Facebook Spell the End of Privacy?-> on Tuesday November 06 2007, @10:14AM FloatsomNJetsom
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FloatsomNJetsom writes "Employers are checking out your facebook page, facebook employees know which pages you're checking out, and those pictures of you passed out on the street corner from last Saturday night just landed in the inboxes of your 200 closest friends... Switched.com is taking a look at the slow death of privacy at the hands of social media sites such as Facebook and MySpace with a gallery of Facebook's most embarrassing party photos, a report on the creepy practice of FB employees monitoring what pages you look at and a fantastic, thought-provoking video interview with social media expert, NYU professor and uber-geek Clay Shirky — who says that social networks are profoundly changing our ability to keep our private lives private. Eventually, Shirky theorizes, society will have to create a space that's implicitly private even though it's technically public, not unlike a personal conversation held on a public street. Otherwise, our ability to keep our lives private will be forever destroyed. Of course, that might already be the case."
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