David Emery OnlineFacebook Breached My Privacy, And Other Things That Whiny, Entitled Dipshits Say
11 May 2010
In other words, their problem is not that something ended up online, simply that they were unable to keep control of something they willingly shared with at least a portion of the world. And it’s that attitude that needs to change – from one of retroactive bleating about privacy to one of proactive filtering of what we choose to share in the first place.
Blaming Facebook’s flaky approach to privacy for the ills of the exhibitionist generation is just yelling at the stable door, long after the horse has bolted.
Surprisingly for something on TechCrunch, this article is right on the money. I appreciate that, judging by the amount of people on Twitter* that seem to hate Facebook, I may be in a minority in my peer group but I have no problem with Facebook, and a fairly relaxed attitude to online privacy.
The key to me is just to assume that everyone can read or view anything you put on the internet, wherever that is, and act accordingly. It's the internet: you don't have any control, so don't worry about it.
* Most of which have public Twitter streams, Just sayin'.
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