As I sat and watched Mike Arrington of TechCrunch interview Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, I heard them discuss the future of privacy. It seems that Zuckerberg is evangelizing the death of the doctrine of privacy. With Facebook being the largest social network out there, that is a pretty scary notion given the fact that we all are signing up and turning our social life over to the Internet. I wonder what privacy will look like in the next few years? In fact it seems to be changing at a rapid pace and evolving with every new application.
I recently helped present a series at my son’s school on “Cyber Safety”. In addition, local law enforcement also presented on the dangers of the world of social networks and what our children are doing online and the predators that are out there and their methods. It was very sobering to figure that there are that many people out there trying to harm our kids via the Internet and social networks. An yet, we are all flocking to these networks as our new playgrounds and the place to be and all from the safety, or so it may seem, of our own homes.
I am particularly interested in geo-location or geo-tracking applications that are becoming more and more popular. Twitter themselves have opened up location based Tweets so that people can determine your whereabouts as you click away at 140 characters. These software applications are so new that they have yet to become mainstream uses for evil but it can only be a matter of time until we begin to hear of predators using them and suddenly you will hear of their evil deeds on the prime time news.
Is privacy going away? Is our notion that we are protected by privacy laws and common sense enough? Have you read the terms of service of each and every software application that you are using today? Perhaps you have agreed to give up your rights to a private life by participating in that latest cool place to hang out on the Internet? In 2009 I deemed it “The Year of Listening” as that was the new marketing mantra. If that were the case, we should probably listen to what I am now calling “The Year of Privacy.” It could turn out that our privacy will then turn into the “Year of Living Dangerously.”
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I was going through my feeds last night and funneling all of my reads as I tend to do in the evenings and sharing some of what I found to be interesting to my community through Twitter. This is becoming more and more of a habit with me as I tend to pour through a lot of data. What I think might be of interest to my followers I share. I am generous that way. Actually it is part of my overall plan to let the blogosphere and other platforms know that I exist—I network therefore I am. I see a t-shirt in the makings here.
I have been keeping ahead of the game of new and shiny objects by trying out the latest and greatest in tools that can be used for social media programs at companies. I have always come back to the main point of view as it relates to tools that work. I was reading
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It used to be that in order to be seen as an influencer or to be really taken seriously in your niche or genre, you had to be on someone’s blogroll. Being added to a blogroll gave you some credibility and it also helped you get read by others in your group. You got to be one of the cool kids if you were recognized on a blogroll. The goal was to get listed on a blog roll by someone with lots of readers as well. It also helped you get read by others, or it helped your voice get heard. Being on a blogroll was the gold standard.
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