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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• internet
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• networks
• privacy
• online
• facebook
• myspace
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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.

[pde2010]

@kj293 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.

[mcrem32]

Hey fucktard..... My Facebook account has nothing on it, I just use it once or twice a year, to be a troll!!! So yea my life is very verty private... Lol this fucking flamer

[rugbydazz]

@SA2137 Totally agree with you and I did the same thing 5 mins ago it took me 2 hours to complete the process as I deleted everything on my account before I closed it for good, I feel free and feel like I got my privacy back.

[UnscrupulousAgitator]

To those who say "privacy settings" so only your "friends" can see. Yeah, until they are no longer your friend, but you dont know it yet. I deleted my account, AFTER I used info gathered on facebook to win a court case. Did I lie about being the persons friend ... oh yeah, do other ppl lie about it ... oh yeah. Dont be stupid, if you keep your facebook open, dont put anything that you wouldnt tell a judge or yr grandmother. Peace.

[nopp1]

@IIIwke even do you have it on.. the owners of the site can still see anything and send everything away

[TheWayshowerTube]

Uhhh. Privacy Settings make this video completely irrelevant discussion.

[IIIwke]

hello!!! there are privacy settings to where only your friends can look at your profile

[KaiTendo174]

@pde2010 no way man youtube is REAL... and I think there's gonna finally be world peace 1 and not ww3... :P

[mokanlines]

The arguement is; if you post something on the internet, should it be private?

Just scream out your feelings in a shopping mall! Is that private? Keep it to youurself and to others IN PERSON, otherwise don't be mad if a fat pimply 10 year old in suburban Chicago thinks your a dweeb and sends it to another fat pimply 10 year old in Egypt.

[orkinman33]

He looks like Tom Hanks without hair.

[matisz4]

Haha, if you think that facebook replaces real life or if you're retarded enoguh not to unfriend people on facebook you dont want to see your activity, then you can only blame yourself. Facebook is a part of real life which makes communicating easier.