The evolution of PRIVACY on Facebook

To get the "gist" of this infographic from Matt Mckeon's website, you need to click on the link below and chose "image based version" on the topleft corner of the image, and then click on each of the dates to the upper right of the image to get the impact of the changes that FaceBook has made over the last 5 years of its existence. Matt is a developer on the staff of the Visual Communication Lab at IBM

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook

See my HaraKiri post for more context Thoughts Illustrated: Is it time to leave facebook?

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Is it time to leave facebook?

This article on the ZDNet Tech Broiler provides a very cautionary tale for FaceBookers, adding to the uproar from many tech pundits about the privacy issues for regular users of Facebook.

I have already used the personal settings "opt out" on Facebook to reduce my exposure, but after reading the linked article I am not so sure I have protected myself adequately.

My grandkids, who are avid FaceBookers probably don't care about their privacy right now, but their FB content may come back to haunt them in the future.
Contemplating FaceBook Hara-Kiri | Tech Broiler | ZDNet.com

Open Social -Trojan Whores?

Open Social hit the net last week and gave google and partners a legup over Facebook in the exploding field of social networking. But the value of the open social networking APIs embodied in Open Social may be nullified by the potential for misuse of open user profiles by OS app developers who could mine the data gathered from OpenSocial profiles for their own purposes without user permission.

Anyone who can provide users a way to prevent application developers from gathering, mining and selling end-user profile, activity and clickstream data without their opt-in permission
could have a killer app.

If you have an hour to waste click on the YouTube video below to view the announcement by google's Vic Gundotra and the first group of OpenSocial Partners.

What's your take on OpenSocial?