Category Archives: privacy

Your private life, well, it’s not so private (higher ed, social media, and privacy)

robinna/ March 4, 2010/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

Interesting article about faculty and social media, touching a tiny bit on online presence & digital identity ( because you know — say it with me kids — if you’re not building your digital identity, someone is building it for you…) but also further removes the illusion that faculty members — or anyone, for that matter — can maintain a

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Social media etiquette

robinna/ January 19, 2010/ social media, privacy/ 2 comments

I’m tweaking my facebook, privacy & identity workshop, so I tidied these up. You can read all of my previous writings about privacy, here, facebook ones are a here, and here are the commandments… LOL Social media/ Facebook Etiquette · Be aware of what you can control and what you can’t. Make sure to read TOS and Privacy statements –

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Lawsuit against Facebook

robinna/ November 16, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

I wonder how many more lawsuits are out there pending against facebook? And to answer my question, this is actually a followup to earlier legal action. This one accuses Facebook of “conspir[ing] with Blockbuster to violate a federal law protecting customer video-rental and sale records.” According to the article the previous law suit (which resulted in a settlement on Facebook’s

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For Zynga game users (you know, farmville, mafiawars, vampirewars, etc….)

robinna/ November 13, 2009/ social media, privacy, Gamification, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Interesting article about the fallout over Zynga (Farmville, Mafia Wars, etc., which all have huge communities on facebook) and its scam ads. Hmm, yet another reason to pay attention to what you click on and ALWAYS read the TOS. 😉 “Zynga insists they are serious about cleaning up the industry. And today Pincus has announced that the company will remove

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Fix facebook feed — facebook “enhancements”

robinna/ October 25, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

So, if you logged in to facebook over the weekend you saw that FB has wreaked havoc on your feed, greatly impacting the information you send out to your friends and what you see from your friends. Friend spam! I love it (not really…..) Of course, along with the bad is some good options. Potentially LOTS more control over what

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Facebook and Friendfinder — what you need to know

robinna/ August 25, 2009/ social media, privacy, networking, life 2.0+/ 0 comments

Interesting post about how facebook uses your email address to connect you to people through friendfinder Delete your info here …which all just goes to show, we all need to stay on top of what information we put out there. I don’t use friendfinder, but apparently my email address was harvested from a couple of mailing lists by people who

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changes in facebook privacy

robinna/ July 11, 2009/ social media, privacy/ 0 comments

Interesting article about the upcoming changes in facebook privacy. I’m not surprised facebook is moving towards public feeds, because as the article puts it: Facebook holds a giant reservoir of demographic and sentiment data. It is the mother lode – and it’s been inaccessible so far because everything has been private so far. http://tinyurl.com/lgpfh8 For public entities and organizations such

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