I don't get this facebook thing just like I didn't get AOL and myspace before it.
What a 16 year old thinks about how Facebook is changing our society.
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#12>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.
Do I get cool bionic implants if I accept the new wave?
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#13It'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.
I consider the fact that we want our Great Aunt Mildreds to have a false idea of who we really are to be a flaw in our culture.
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#14He (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.
There's a huge difference between knowing that something is true and wanting to be reminded about it constantly in graphic detail.
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#15There are some valid points but it exasperates that there is no way out. There is: simply not use Facebook, or if you use it, use it carefully.
There is a reason I do not link my Facebook account from my professional website and/or Linked-in account. And there is a reason I simply not use Facebook to share my private life with anybody.
The thing is that I have a private life which I don't want the whole internet to know about, sure I may want to share something with my real friends but I'm so old fashion that I prefer talking about it in a pub...
In the end I think people will learn not to be careless.
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#16Facebook already has groups. So make your friends group, your family group, your coworkers group, and your BDSM group, and when you post anything, make sure you mark which group(s) to post it to. Facebook actually makes it pretty easy to do so. The author mentions groups but basically claims laziness as an excuse.
And of course, if you don't want anyone knowing what you're thinking or doing, DON'T POST IT.