What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
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#2He (you) is (are) only 16 so I give him (you) some leeway here but this makes the same mistake a lot of technology pundits do in assuming users will have to adapt to technology rather than technology adapting to users.
The idea that you simply won't be able to maintain multiple social circles in 5 years is patently absurd. Mother's should not have to hear about their son's sex lives and Son's don't want them to. The fact that Facebook currently makes that happen is a flaw in the technology not a flaw in society.
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#3Incorrect, Facebook or the company that kills Facebook will figure out how to convey multiple identities from a single account.
Facebook will soon enable us to better manage multiple identities in the same way that Outlook's delay send feature helps us with working all hours of the night.
Eventually photos from your xmas party will only be viewable by your coworkers and photos from burning man will only be viewable by burners.
Re: What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
#4Incorrect, Facebook or the company that kills Facebook will figure out how to convey multiple identities from a single account. Facebook will soon enable us to better manage multiple identities in the same way that Outlook's delay send feature helps us with working all hours of the night. Eventually photos from your xmas party will only be viewable by your coworkers and photos from burning man will only be viewable b…
Facebook already allows you to group friends together and assign permissions based on those groups. I can post a status update right now that everyone except my family can see or a status update only my high school friends can see.
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#5>I urge everyone to adapt to these social changes and not try to fight them. Resisting the inevitable is counterproductive. Adapt to them completely, and conduct yourself in a manner that [...]
Lower your shields and surrender your ships. We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
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#6It's not that hard to keep social identities separate. Don't add your Great Aunt Mildred as a friend on Facebook. If you really must, it's not like it's difficult to make separate accounts (annoying maybe, but not difficult).
Or, don't use Facebook at all.
Re: What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
#7Incorrect, Facebook or the company that kills Facebook will figure out how to convey multiple identities from a single account. Facebook will soon enable us to better manage multiple identities in the same way that Outlook's delay send feature helps us with working all hours of the night. Eventually photos from your xmas party will only be viewable by your coworkers and photos from burning man will only be viewable b…
Facebook already allows you to group friends together and assign permissions based on those groups. I can post a status update right now that everyone except my family can see or a status update only my high school friends can see.
Yep, it is a bit of a PITA to setup but once done is well worth it in avoiding social faux pas.
Re: What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
#8He (you) is (are) only 16 so I give him (you) some leeway here but this makes the same mistake a lot of technology pundits do in assuming users will have to adapt to technology rather than technology adapting to users. The idea that you simply won't be able to maintain multiple social circles in 5 years is patently absurd. Mother's should not have to hear about their son's sex lives and Son's don't want them to. The…
Maintaining Facebook's privacy settings seems like a lot of work just so your Mom can maintain a view that you're asexual.
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#9I've always been a weirdly private person. It mostly stems from my family, mostly because my mom has a motormouth, her parents who were the equivalent of the high school bully that could expose your every flaw, and I also learned some hard lessons about kids when I moved around a bit in middle/high school, developing an (un)healthy level of paranoia and social anxiety.
I have best friends/groups that I've managed to keep completely separate for more than five years. Maybe because of this, even on facebook I've managed to keep up the segregation after nearly 6 years through self-censorship and facebook features like friend lists. I think Facebook was also the first site I used (not counting ones requiring a verified identity) where I actually used my full real name to sign up (although I created several fake accounts first to test the waters)
My point is, if it's really, really important to a person to keep their lives separate, it is possible. It's not easy, but it's possible. Whether or not it's healthy and worth the time that it takes are the questions you have to ask.
Re: What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
#10Incorrect, Facebook or the company that kills Facebook will figure out how to convey multiple identities from a single account. Facebook will soon enable us to better manage multiple identities in the same way that Outlook's delay send feature helps us with working all hours of the night. Eventually photos from your xmas party will only be viewable by your coworkers and photos from burning man will only be viewable b…
There have been ways to manipulate facebook to do this for at least 3 years, but maybe longer.
It used to be that only "Really good friends" could see nearly anything on my profile, but I ended up relaxing things and creating a list of "Sensitive People" who are blocked from almost everything on my profile.