Saturday, March 7, 2009

A Life Online is a Public Life

San Jose State professor of business, Randall Stross, writes about what many of us have known for quite some time: that a life led online is a public life. Some of us comfort ourselves with the fact that our privacy settings on our Facebook profiles, that most heavily used social networking site, only allows our "friends" to see the information we post. But with the definition of an online friend becoming looser and looser, even the tightest privacy setting doesn't really make anything private anymore. See Professor Stross' take on how private our online lives really are at:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/08/business/08digi.html?_r=1&ref=technology.

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