Comments on: Our social-media amnesia http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/ Fri, 24 May 2013 19:36:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: aha321 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/comment-page-1/#comment-42496 aha321 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 08:44:30 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12195#comment-42496 While archiving internet content is a good idea, there are some real problems with it. Already, I have concerns about the many sites that disallow deletion of user comments or content. You can literally drive your own reputation into the ground, or reveal your political affiliations, and that be a matter of public record. Of course, as we age, we change, and our opinions may change, but sadly anything written on the Internet remains in 'Ink' on far too many sites. So, archiving content is a good and worthy goal, but privacy is also important. Just like the Internet Archive allows individual site owners to opt-out, it would be nice if individual users could censor their names from archives by submitting a request to do just that (with appropriate authentication of the person). It is scary, to me, to think of poor teenagers who throw everything on the web -- a few years from now, they'll have so much biting them in the butt that some may have a hole too deep to ever dig out of. In politically unstable countries, some may become targets. It's simply a scary Internet ;p While archiving internet content is a good idea, there are some real problems with it. Already, I have concerns about the many sites that disallow deletion of user comments or content. You can literally drive your own reputation into the ground, or reveal your political affiliations, and that be a matter of public record. Of course, as we age, we change, and our opinions may change, but sadly anything written on the Internet remains in ‘Ink’ on far too many sites. So, archiving content is a good and worthy goal, but privacy is also important. Just like the Internet Archive allows individual site owners to opt-out, it would be nice if individual users could censor their names from archives by submitting a request to do just that (with appropriate authentication of the person). It is scary, to me, to think of poor teenagers who throw everything on the web — a few years from now, they’ll have so much biting them in the butt that some may have a hole too deep to ever dig out of. In politically unstable countries, some may become targets. It’s simply a scary Internet ;p

]]> By: wholetone http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/comment-page-1/#comment-42471 wholetone Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:36:39 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12195#comment-42471 According to this Reuters article you can view all your old tweets, delete them, etc... just click on the word "Tweets." http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/0 1/us-twitter-data-idUSTRE8201IU20120301 According to this Reuters article you can view all your old tweets, delete them, etc… just click on the word “Tweets.”

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/0 1/us-twitter-data-idUSTRE8201IU20120301

]]> By: GSH10 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/comment-page-1/#comment-42420 GSH10 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:39:36 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12195#comment-42420 Nancy, Reuters, among other reporting agencies published Twitter's sale of data. Although I am unaware of how old their salable data is, the value of user behavior is high that I venture to guess they have it all. This article from InformationWeek "Superhighway To Hell" by Stephen Saunders written June 2010 is very accurate about user information. http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/search/225700640 Recent Reuters article about Twitter selling data: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/01/us-twitter-data-idUSTRE8201IU20120301 Nancy, Reuters, among other reporting agencies published Twitter’s sale of data. Although I am unaware of how old their salable data is, the value of user behavior is high that I venture to guess they have it all.

This article from InformationWeek “Superhighway To Hell” by Stephen Saunders written June 2010 is very accurate about user information.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/inte rnet/search/225700640

Recent Reuters article about Twitter selling data:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/0 1/us-twitter-data-idUSTRE8201IU20120301

]]> By: NewsLady http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/comment-page-1/#comment-42413 NewsLady Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:34:44 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12195#comment-42413 Nice to know that at least something from the internet disappears after you write it. Why do we need an archive for everything? Tweets approximate speech: brief remarks tossed off during the course of the day. They're not meant to be immortalized, any more than they would be if they were spoken. We should have some privacy for our offhand remarks, don't you think? Nice to know that at least something from the internet disappears after you write it. Why do we need an archive for everything? Tweets approximate speech: brief remarks tossed off during the course of the day. They’re not meant to be immortalized, any more than they would be if they were spoken. We should have some privacy for our offhand remarks, don’t you think?

]]> By: Nevinsdor http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/03/21/our-social-media-amnesia/comment-page-1/#comment-42396 Nevinsdor Thu, 22 Mar 2012 15:44:09 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/?p=12195#comment-42396 After reading this I am not sure how comfortably I will sleep tonight. After reading this I am not sure how comfortably I will sleep tonight.

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