Facebook Killed the Private Life

You live your life online -- and anyone can read it. Should employers be able to troll your Facebook or MySpace page? Or should everything that you put online be accessible to anyone, anywhere? With increasingly popular social networking sites aggregating unprecedented volumes of personal data, the age-old issue of online privacy is once again rearing its ugly head. We ask NYU professor and social networking expert Clay Shirky (watch the full interview with Clay Shirky here) where to draw the line between personal and public online.

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[SA2137]

I deleted my facebook yesterday. You only have one life, why are you going to waste it on facebook, your virtual world. Instead of living your REAL life, going out with REAL friends, not posting up everything that happens in your life for hundreds and thousand of people to see, most of them don't even give two cents about you.. C'mon.. Time to actually get a REAL life.

[Phil Dentertainment]

I deleted my faaaaaaceboooook account because i began to realise how false everyone is on there....it appears that if you're not on faaaaacebooooook, you're not worthy of being kept in touch with....it's a cult collective clique if you like - if your face fits etc etc......nothing will ever get me back on it even if my life depended on it....the next account to close may well be this one on yob tube cos all there is on here is worded world war 3.