Wednesday, February 17, 2010

A is Wise

A is reluctant to jump into the whole social media, Facebook, Twitter world. She is a very private person and worries that there is too much information available about people before they even start advertising their every move and thought.

Confirmation of this sentiment is a website called PleaseRobMe, which tracks Twitter and Foursquare posts when the person has checked in someplace other than at home. Since they're not at home, they are implicitly saying, "Hey, please come rob me."

Two comments:
  1. Great idea for a website -- a clever, subversive way to highlight some weaknesses in the rhetoric about the "post privacy" society.
  2. A was right to be worried about this.

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