Comments on: Are Our Transparent Lives Transient? http://www.psfk.com/2007/07/are-our-transparent-lives-transient.html Ideas & Trends Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:51:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: John Voelcker http://www.psfk.com/2007/07/are-our-transparent-lives-transient.html/comment-page-1#comment-6210 John Voelcker Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:09:53 +0000 http://www.psfk.com/2007/07/are-our-transparent-lives-transient.html#comment-6210 Truly I think the relevant concept here is privacy settings. There'll probably be notorious & highly publicized stories of mistaken identities on Facebook ruining people's careers. And it'll always take time for newly minted adults to realize that tighter privacy is not retroactive (cf. The Wayback Machine). But in the end, a combination of aware parenting and experience by users who've been online since they could toddle will solve most of this issue most of the time. I hope it'll be sans legislation .... Truly I think the relevant concept here is privacy settings.

There’ll probably be notorious & highly publicized stories of mistaken identities on Facebook ruining people’s careers. And it’ll always take time for newly minted adults to realize that tighter privacy is not retroactive (cf. The Wayback Machine).

But in the end, a combination of aware parenting and experience by users who’ve been online since they could toddle will solve most of this issue most of the time.

I hope it’ll be sans legislation ….

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