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CNET News' Caroline McCarthy is a downtown Manhattanite who believes that, despite popular opinion, the Web can actually help your social life. She's happily addicted to fun social-media tools from Twitter to Yelp to Facebook, sends an inordinate number of text messages, and has a tendency to waste time at the office reading restaurant blogs. Here, she explores all facets of the Web's gregarious side, as well as the unique tech culture in her home city of New York. (Don't call it Silicon Alley.)
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It is immoral.
It is unethical.
It should be illegal.
killing children for god's sake.
Yeah, if they publish things without permission it's not good, but
how hard is it to delete something from your feed until they get
the system running optimally? Beacon is brand spanking new,
which means it's not immediately going to be perfect.
People who give a site their Facebook login info and then are
surprised when their activities are published on the news feed
are not really tops in their class either.
- Not enough of a change!
- by bob1960 November 29, 2007 10:52 AM PST
- There is really only one change that is needed. The ability to opt-out of it's use. I refuse to use any site or product that does not allow me to turn off features that collect personal information about me. No matter how clear or confusing it is to use or not use. The only honorable and fair way to play it is to allow the feature to be turned off!
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- Like it or not...
- by rhsc November 29, 2007 11:07 AM PST
- Like it or not, loads of sites likely have info about you and don't let you turn it off. Any site can see what site you came from before going to theirs. Lots of ad companies put hidden tracking cookies into their ads so they can see where you go. If you're not in control of any router you link to for net access, someone can log and view all your traffic
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- They will change it
- by Lucky Lou November 29, 2007 3:22 PM PST
- What you're suggesting was the original plan, and I'm sure it will
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(10 Comments)Sure, the degrees to which each site does this vary tremendously, but keep in mind that you can always be watched by someone else
be re-implemented. This will all soon go away.
I sound like I'm defending Facebook but it's just trying to get
people to not freak out so much over something that's not that
big a deal, ultimately, and will be corrected because it's the
smart thing to do.
The people on TechCrunch are really freaked as well. It's almost
funny at how the web community are so hair-triggered to
overreact.