Our new officemate, Sydney, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey.
Anthony has adopted a dog, Sydney. She’s pit bull mix, about two years old, and absolutely the sweetest thing. She’s a little shy around tall men and a lot anxious when Anthony isn’t nearby, but she’s starting to get used to her new surroundings and relax.
Related to my post yesterday about Facebook’s privacy settings: danah boyd posted in more detail about the implications of Facebooks privacy (“Facebook and ‘radical transparency’“). These two paragraphs convey the problem I often see in which people haven’t thought through the implications of the “network” part of social networks:
A while back, I was talking with [...]
Yesterday the New York Times made a noble attempt to map Facebook’s new, super-complicated privacy settings, via a few well-designed graphics and an accompanying article (“The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking,” by Nick Bilton, 5/12/2010).
The new opt-out settings certainly are complex. Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be prepared [...]
