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The Day Facebook Changed: Messages to Become Public by Default

Looks like someone is going to be cancelling her facebook account in the near feature.

Are you freaking kidding me? I guess I actually will be closing my facebook account. Its not like I actually used it anymore anyway. Good riddance.

Fast-food chain Burger King has created “Whopper Sacrifice,” a Facebook app that will give you a coupon for a free hamburger if you delete 10 people from your friends list.

Sorry guys, its not personal. Actually it might be, but you’ll never know. The best part is that it tells the people that you sacrifice.

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Sometimes, you get the kick in the face that reminds you that your parents, in fact, are human beings with lives of their own. All my mother wanted was to connect with old friends, keep up with her daughters, and send little dumb Christmas trees to her nieces and nephews. And yet the 15-year-old in me wanted to keep her from doing so, as if social networking is something that only young people can do, and lame old parents should just stay away from the universe and keep on using their antiquated land-line telephones.

In other words, in the same way that you don’t want your Mom reading about your drunken shenanigans online, your Mother may just want to keep you away from her personal life, as well. “I’m a fully-grown, responsible adult and mother,” Sager says, “OK, according to my mortgage coupon book, I am. According to Facebook, where I just wrapped up a discussion with a friend about Pillow Pants, the vagina troll (Clerks ringing a bell for you Kevin Smith fans?), well… you be the judge. What my kid doesn’t know won’t hurt her.”

Theres a great article on Internet Evolution about the future of the Internet as we will know it, and the personal risks involved. Everyone should read it here.

From the article:

In the future, we will continue to experience an erosion of privacy, because as the value of an individual’s network grows, the level of privacy will decline. Eventually, privacy as we know it today will disappear completely, particularly when it comes to the ability to control one’s personal information. Corporations are collecting as much information as they can get their hands on, and yet many consumers are not aware of how carefully they are tracked and analyzed by private enterprises. Advertising models such as “behavioral targeting” maximize revenues from select customers, using data acquired from multiple sources and deployed without customer knowledge.

With the future almost upon us, this transition is bringing an end to privacy as we know it. Those who accept that will have opportunities to create value for themselves by taking advantage of the use of their private information, ranging from getting targeted discounts that are relevant to their interests to becoming innovators of personalized products.

Those who don’t accept a new concept of privacy will have to self-regulate what they put on the Internet, either through restricting access or limiting the type of information they publish.

This is already pretty prevelant today, with all the different social networking online, and the amount of information we put up about ourselves on the internet.

Take Facebook as an example. How easy is it for people to find personal information through a combination of the information you put about yourself on facebook, photos of you that your friends ‘tagged’ you in after your weekend shenanigans, and the different ‘conversations’ you have visible to the public on your wall. Think about the ads that are shown on Facebook. Did you know that if you put yourself as single on Facebook, you’ll see ads for online dating services? This is just the start, and it could get worse.