I wrote this for my DJ Forum, for this thread: Want to work for the city? Hand over your facebook login info but it’s probably more suited to my blog:
It’s funny as we move more and more into the so called digital/information age less and less of our information is personal or private. Think about it on face book, myspace, etc we broadcast our relationship status list our name, address, phone number, websites, etc.
Most of the times we share this information without even thinking about who has the ability to see the information today who will have the ability to see the information tomorrow. There have actually been many newspaper articles on weather or not to ‘friend’ your parents or coworkers.
How many of you have ‘friends’ on facebook that you rarely if ever talk to? Are they really friends or just people you’re too polite to ‘defriend’? No offense, to anyone who is on my facebook page but I have many people on there whom I never talk to yet they have access to all my current information. At no time in history has this been possible unless you wrote or phoned your old friends they had no way to get your information unless it was through a friend/family member of yours who would more than likely know if you didn’t want that other person to have your information for what ever reason.
For me it seems like it’s an all in or all out thing. It seems that you either put the information there for all to see OR no information for anyone to see. It would be nice if you could control what information goes out to who. For instance maybe only real life friends and family should be able to see my address and phone number. As it is today, once you’re my BFF on facebook you know where I live.. Is that smart? I don’t know personally I don’t think I make very many enemies and those that I do make enemies out of probably aren’t crazy enough to do something like try and shoot me through my front facing bedroom window.
But what happens if I friend someone who I don’t realize is a crazed lunatic and down the line I piss them off in some way then they try and off me through my street facing bedroom window?
I’m joking a bit and perhaps taking things to the extreme but it is something to think about.
