A good friend of mine, then director of a casino, said some time ago to me succinctly what the business model of the Casino is " anyone who sets foot on the threshold of a casino, take the time to say goodbye to all the money he has. "
I had this thought in analogy to the announcement of Facebook at its F8 conference for developers last week in Los Angeles when the development tool Open Graph and Facebook's new profile page Timeline were announced and after the announcement of Facebook to music, video and television programs via Facebook to offer.
And I thought, "Anyone who has an account on Facebook furnish currently taking leave of his privacy".
Because what is going on? To begin the formal way that Facebook appears to be controlled: you decide who your friends are and who you can and may follow, you give permission for any information you post that he more or less visible. You give permission for any application that retrieves data from you and your data from other sources, retrieves and publishes. That seems all right: you're sitting at the controls for each character information you publish on Facebook pages.
But there's more. Facebook allows you, and rightly, to approve the application of apps that data can be exchanged and that this information will be placed in your stream. But that requires Facebook once and then that undetected, non-intrusive, automated and further unsolicited performed, the likelihood that without you you are aware, because you somewhere something else on the net or Facebook are doing that action, opinion, comment or simply choose a product in your stream, visible to all or many, is included. This is how Facebook music (spotyfy), television programs and videos on Facebook and offer be aware that every choice you make for friends to see and the stream is stored.
But the devil is somewhere else: Facebook introduces your Timeline. One feature that all the (major) gebeurteniussen in your life chronologically and largely graphic shows. I predict that everyone is at first glance will fall and be diligent in search of material for the missing milestones of your life in Facebook visible. And where the "older" among us will see - because the digitization of your life just a decade really going on - that part of the past still a black hole remains, "the youth" that Facebook fully automated building for your biography.
But remember it than that Facebook data for your time lime also from other sources (that you had indeed given permission!) And data that your friends once you have published, you in your timeline. And here comes the catch, or perhaps I should say the snake, although perhaps each individual data lad not as dramatic when the (public) is published on Facebook, there is now the effect that all the data from many sources, the chronology In a context where it will stand all the question is whether you would want to publish your permission if Facebook had asked for this entirely. This may be hard hit when it comes to your privacy.
We are, in general it does not seem aware of the dangers on the Internet, "the i-crime will probably pass from me", while we are more focused on viruses, hacking and phishing, and we can buy tools anyway, but the biggest internet against-fighter, Norton, warned long ago that the greatest danger and discomfort is identity fraud, we turn imperceptibly so much about ourselves and immediate surroundings publicly on the internet that a smart criminal with your data really like you may occur, for he knows the birth dates of your children where you live, what your phone number, bank accounts and place of birth and date of your mother.
That is one bad side of too many abandoned personal data, but the splits to him, of course, that the Internet is also a lot of information displays and that is because so many people accessing information with a lot of fun all the same to the places . For one good turn deserves! Moreover, people seem to really enjoy about themselves, the children, the work they do and things to tell. Egos to a greater or lesser extent about.
Perhaps also the price we paid for the untold joys of the Internet and social media to pay in terms of a final and irreversible loss of your secrets about your privacy. Maybe we just feel that the privacy was done, because a large part to "shame" goes, we can perhaps also to learn to get used everybody knows your salary, the happiness and disappointments of your family life or your professional career.
But now is the social and socially so that we have certain facts, opinions and behaviors are behind the firewall to keep our lives. And as long as we believe this view, then we have to realize that social media and especially Facebook, wolves in sheep's clothing may prove to be.