On 3-Nov-09, at 8:54 PM, Rhiannon Bury wrote:
And allowing one "self" to break out into other spaces may have unintended and real (as in material) consequences--the prospective boss checks out your facebook page and sees the photos of your "shitfaced" self at the bar.
In my unpublished paper I read some studies done in ACM journals of privacy and ingredients for crimes of stalking and identity theft on facebook. One paper studied first year students and found that 98% to 99% of them did not change the default privacy settings on facebook. So these statements are usually it seems prefaced on the default settings. My argument is from the fact that I have changed my settings to be very private and the only people who view my facebook content are friends. Now there is one former boss, but no present boss or HR department or recruiting web site should be able to see me at the bar. I guess I am too aware as well to post such pictures. You might check the University of Ottawa's Tech Law program output on facebook because they have actually forced facebook to change privacy information. I attend the local tech law talks when I can. I do though follow the fact that I present multiple identities to groups of peers from different jobs, and different phases of life. Crossing groups like Ottawa's open source programmers with Nortel's security guards and then with Wobblies. Privacy to use a legal definition is how much we control information about ourselves. I think Sartre said, we know more about our self then others do. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa. just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. kiitos paljon, merci, thank you and muchas gracias for reading.