{"id":1377,"date":"2015-05-30T13:00:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-30T20:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1377"},"modified":"2015-06-01T13:34:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T20:34:16","slug":"open-face-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/30\/open-face-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Open (Face) Book"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 30th:\u00a0Do Not Disturb<\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong>How do you manage your online privacy? Are there certain things you won\u2019t post in certain places? Information you\u2019ll never share online? Or do you assume information about you is accessible anyway?<\/em><\/p>\n

My general rule of thumb is: don\u2019t put it online unless you want your mom to see it. Note that I didn\u2019t say \u201cunless you\u2019re okay with the possibility your mom might see it.\u201d The distinction may be subtle, but it\u2019s a necessary one, because sometimes things end up on Facebook by accident. And yes, your mom is on Facebook.<\/p>\n

This is not Facebook\u2019s fault, by the way. A person who very much cares about his online privacy has tools and options available to make sure only certain people see certain things. But these are people we\u2019re talking about. It\u2019s a simple as hitting \u201cprint screen\u201d alt-tab, and ctrl-V. Voila, that secret thing is now on Facebook, tagged with your name, and your mom is looking at it.<\/p>\n

Some folks trust their own skills and the people they interact with. I don\u2019t. I\u2019m not paranoid\u2014 I\u2019m fairly certain no one is interested in cyber-following me until I slip up, post a picture of my bare ass, and then use it to make my mom uncomfortable. The truth is, if someone wanted to do that, they could just as easily do something nifty with free, on-line photo editing tools and make me look foolish. But there you go, that\u2019s my defense. \u201cMom, you know my profile is public and I don\u2019t post anything, even privately. That thing Dale sent you? What do YOU think?\u201d<\/p>\n

I do NOT trust my own skills when it comes to keeping things private. I slip up all the time. I get lazy, forget to opt-in or opt-out as appropriate, and the next thing I know, Facebook is flooded with my latest uploads to 500px. I then have to go in and delete those. Not because pictures of flowers and sunsets are embarrassing, but because spamming friend\u2019s in-boxes with pictures IS embarrassing.<\/p>\n

And let\u2019s be clear, when I say \u201cFacebook,\u201d I don\u2019t mean just Mr. Zuckerberg\u2019s little website. That\u2019s just the best synecdoche for social media as a whole. (Or is it metonymy? I always get those confused.) I don\u2019t tweet things that would get me fired, I don\u2019t share provocative content on Tumblr, I don\u2019t write abusive things on YouTube comments.<\/p>\n

Not that I have anything to say on those platforms that would be contentious in the first place. But one man\u2019s provocative is another man\u2019s seditious, and who\u2019s to say what could be used against me in the future. No, I play it mucho safe. And I wish everyone else did too. I wish everyone would only post things that they would want their mothers to see. Not because I want to censor anybody, far from it. When I post political rants about the hypocrisy of some of our nation\u2019s leadership, that\u2019s nothing to be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking about those trolls, evil little kids bent on making the internet a toxic place. I guess I don\u2019t have much respect for anonymity, is what I\u2019m saying. I appreciate that there are some people, around the world, who would put themselves in real physical danger if they signed their screeds with their real names. But those people aren\u2019t saying anything their mothers would be ashamed of.<\/p>\n

For the rest of you, I say: if you\u2019re not willing to put your name under it, don\u2019t post it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Postaday for May 30th:\u00a0Do Not Disturb.\u00a0How do you manage your online privacy? Are there certain things you won\u2019t post in certain places? Information you\u2019ll never share online? Or do you assume information about you is accessible anyway? My general rule of thumb is: don\u2019t put it online unless you want your mom to see it. … <\/p>\n

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