Any more room for privacy given the hyper-connected world of online social networking?
Online social networking consists of facebook, friendster and online games etc.
If you ask me if there is any more room for privacy, I say it depends.
Depends on what? It depends on yourself as you can choose what you write and how you privatized it.
Yes. For facebook and friendster, you can choose whether if you want to add that person or not allowing people you do not know to see your profile and things and how you want to privatized it. Even if you upload revealing photos, you can choose who you allow to see it when you upload. In the first place, do not even upload anything you do not want people to see! For online games, you can choose not to reveal your identity by self-given character name and contact number etc to people in games.
No. For facebook and friendster, sometimes people still can view your photos through your friends profile as they might have add you therefore able to share the view of your profile with their friends. You also cannot control what your friends’ wants to upload and say in their own profile, maybe your ugly looking pictures or your secrets. For games, same thing, you might just trade numbers with your friends online, not knowing that they will irritates you.
Therefore, I said it depends on yourself, on how you want to do your things online.
-liangping (:
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