Fwd: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Re: [ciresearchers] Community Informatics comes to Facebook
I am not sure people have noticed this on facebook. See below Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> Date: May 30, 2010 2:48:50 PM GMT-04:00 To: ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net, Michael Gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com
Cc: 'CRACIN Canada discussion' <cracin- canada@vancouvercommunity.net>, ci-research-sa@vcn.bc.ca Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Re: [ciresearchers] Community Informatics comes to Facebook
Facebook is responsible. These new group pages are created automatically by facebook based on people's interests and the persons join without permissions. Facebook automatically adds everyone interested to the group. Also all open status updates or perhaps other chatter are then posted to this group pageif the chatter uses the word "community informatics". The groups seem to all have wikipedia entries. This is just the latest invasion of privacy by facebook. Soon they will produce novels of people's lives based on their status updates and we the users have agreed to this in signing up for facebook.
Micheal start an official community informatics page and tell facebook you have the official page. As an experiment about facebook.
Peter Timusk
On 30-May-10, at 2:33 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:
(I'm not sure who is responsible for this but CI now has a FB fan page ;-)
Community informatics | Facebook Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Community informatics, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Community informatics. <http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Community-informatics/111193338905174
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Peter, Fascinating! I must admit to not having come across what you say below before. (BTW, I came across the Community Informatics Facebook site (and then independently subscribed) because I do a Google alert on "Community Informatics"... If all of this is done automatically--creating the site, pulling in the Wikipedia information, adding the names based on preferences in profiles it is really astonishing and a complete ratcheting up of "social networking"... I'm guessing that they are also including blogs but if they don't include personal emails/messages I'm not sure how it could be seen as an "invasion of privacy"... It is certainly intrusive/invasive in some way but I'm not really sure of the term to use since I think it has to be agreed that anything placed on the web in a manner which allows it to be publicly accessed (e.g. a Facebook wall or open profile or blog) can hardly be identified as "private". Mike -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Peter Timusk Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2010 12:03 PM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Fwd: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Re: [ciresearchers]Community Informatics comes to Facebook I am not sure people have noticed this on facebook. See below Begin forwarded message:
From: Peter Timusk <ptimusk@sympatico.ca> Date: May 30, 2010 2:48:50 PM GMT-04:00 To: ciresearchers@vancouvercommunity.net, Michael Gurstein <gurstein@gmail.com
Cc: 'CRACIN Canada discussion' <cracin- canada@vancouvercommunity.net>, ci-research-sa@vcn.bc.ca Subject: [CommunityInformaticsCanada] Re: [ciresearchers] Community Informatics comes to Facebook
Facebook is responsible. These new group pages are created automatically by facebook based on people's interests and the persons join without permissions. Facebook automatically adds everyone interested to the group. Also all open status updates or perhaps other chatter are then posted to this group pageif the chatter uses the word "community informatics". The groups seem to all have wikipedia entries. This is just the latest invasion of privacy by facebook. Soon they will produce novels of people's lives based on their status updates and we the users have agreed to this in signing up for facebook.
Micheal start an official community informatics page and tell facebook you have the official page. As an experiment about facebook.
Peter Timusk
On 30-May-10, at 2:33 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:
(I'm not sure who is responsible for this but CI now has a FB fan page ;-)
Community informatics | Facebook Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about Community informatics, a collection of shared knowledge concerning Community informatics. <http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Community-informatics/11119333890517 4
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.
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On 30-May-10, at 3:35 PM, Michael Gurstein wrote:
I'm guessing that they are also including blogs but if they don't include personal emails/messages I'm not sure how it could be seen as an "invasion of privacy"...
It is certainly intrusive/invasive in some way but I'm not really sure of the term to use since I think it has to be agreed that anything placed on the web in a manner which allows it to be publicly accessed (e.g. a Facebook wall or open profile or blog) can hardly be identified as "private".
No a facebook wall is supposed to be private if you set it as private. You are allowed to op out of being google searchable on facebook. 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.
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