My personally selected top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 4.30.2011 through 5.6.2011.  In no particular order:

1 TEDucation: 5 TED Talks Librarians Should Watch (and Why) Andy has put together a list of 5 must see TED talks.

1. Ken Robinson – Schools Kill Creativity
2. William Kamkwamba: How I Harnessed the Wind
3. Malcolm Gladwell – What We Can Learn from Spaghetti Sauce
4. Mark Bezos – A Life Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter
5. JR – Use Art To Turn the World Inside Out

2. It’s not the mistake. It’s how you deal with it by @dontgetcaught I’ve written before about mistakes and learning from failure. This post from Denise talks about how making a mistake while speaking and how to recover from it.

In music or dance, when one performer lets a mistake stop her, it throws the rest of the people off who are performing with her–and that can throw the performance. And even if you’re the only one speaking, a mistake that stops you stops the audience and becomes the focal point.

But the speaker who can figure out, fast, how to keep going will have the audience on her side–either because they don’t know what happened (often) or because they admire how you kept going. (That’s happened to me before when I had to make lemonade out of lemons at a talk.)

3. Transliteracy & Making Your Own Luck – A Guest Post by Jamie Hollier @ValentineLuLu I can’t remember if I’ve talked about it here before, but the Libraries and Transliteracy Project is featuring guest authors, this one by Jamie Hollier discusses the work she is doing as the project coordinator for the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) that is being administered by the Colorado State Library

4. Register for ALA’s first-ever Virtual Town Hall!

The first ALA Virtual Town Hall will be held on Wednesday, June 1st from 3:00 – 4:30pm CDT on the ALA ILINC webinar platform.  All members are invited to participate in this online-only event featuring a discussion about e-books and the future of electronic access in libraries, a presentation by President Roberta Stevens on advocacy initiatives during the past year, and Executive Director Keith Michael Fiels presenting on the “State of the Association” and progress implementing the ALA 2015 Strategic Plan.  A special “Open Forum” time will allow participants to ask questions about any Association topics.

Please pre-register for this event at https://ala.ilinc.com/register/tzvwtkr.  The Virtual Town Hall is designed to solicit ideas, comments and questions about the Association from members.  Reports from the Task Force on Equitable Access to Electronic Content (EQUACC) co-chairs Michael Porter and Linda Crowe, and the OITP e-books Subcommittee Chair Bonnie Tijerina will also be posted in advance of their presentations for review and comment.  Time will be reserved during each segment of the Town Hall for questions, comments and reactions to these reports and presentations by participants.

5. Balanced LIfe — 8 Reasons Why Twitter Can Boost Your happiness – I’ve talked in the past about the ways that Twitter will make you better at your job, a better employee and benefit your library but now thanks to this great article by  Gretchen Rubin author of The Happiness Project you can learn how it makes you happier too.

1. Twitter allows you to pursue your passion
2. Twitter distracts you if you’re feeling blue
3. Twitter can get you laughing.
4. Twitter helps you maintain loose relationships and strengthen strong relationships.
5. Twitter lets you help other people
6. Twitter lets you conquer a device
7. Twitter lets you share those funny little observations that float through your head.
8. Twitter makes gathering information easier.

6. A Customer Service Nightmare: Resolving Trademark and Personal Reputation in a Limited Name Space – danah boyd talks about usernames, domain names, urls, personal branding and online identity. Its an important read for everyone but especially, if like me, you use a handle or username. I’m librarianbyday just about everywhere. Except LibraryThing (which is part of why I don’t use it) Facebook. Someone beat me to those. But what if  a company formed with the name Librarian by Day? (I shudder to think what they might be selling).

Who has the legitimate right to a particular identity or account name? What happens when the account is inactive? Or when the person who has the account is squatting? Or when there are conflicting parties who both have legitimate interests in an account name? Or when the account owner has died?

6.1 How safe is your Twitter name? this is sort of a follow up to the previous link but equally important and scary!

7. Happiness Advocacy, Or, How Positive Psychology Will Save Us From Zombies

Happiness. That feeling you get from StuffOnMyCat.com or Skyping with a far away friend. Side effects include: joy, contentment, glee, elation, and surges of confidence, hope, and gratitude. That happiness. If you’re ready to throw in the towel (or this in the garbage), kindly allow me to clarify something. This ain’t yo’ momma’s (or for that matter my momma’s*) self-help book so don’t get all judgmental. If MacGyver can stop a bomb with a toothpick, we can save the world with happiness. ‘Fiction!’ you say? It’s even been scientifically proven. You see, it’s all in the technique, my friends.

8. Doctorow’s talk to ALA’s Privacy & Youth Conf. Digital rights, privacy, filters, & jailbreaking via @shifted@thelib

Speaking to ALA’s Privacy and Youth Conference from London via Skype, Cory Doctorow offered attendees a thought-provoking assessment of the privacy landscape for young people today. His “radical proposition” that libraries become islands of networked privacy best practices — places where young people are educated and empowered to take charge of their digital lives — provided provocative fodder for conference participants’ discussions. Do libraries have a role to play in educating youth about the privacy violations they face at our own institutions? In their own homes? Should we be teaching kids tojailbreak? How can we document the problems and inefficacy of internet filtering technologies, which so often stifle young people’s intellectual freedom and compromise their privacy?

9. IP-Address Is Not a Person, BitTorrent Case Judge Says – nuf said

10. Who Are Your Top 10 Borrowers? (ie: stop treating everyone the same..) via @theREALwikiman @sallyheroes Great post. Read it. Think about it.

Growing your library isn’t just a worthy goal; it is a necessity for your survival. But growth requires focus – a focus on your number one market. A business doesn’t grow by treating all customers equally and neither should libraries.

Now, before you respond with: “but we’re part of council and we must serve all our residents and ratepayers”, or “but how can we treat our students differently, they all deserve our attention”, hear me out. I’m not suggesting you ignore parts of your target market, or that you treat them unfairly. What I’m suggesting is that you focus on your most valuable users within that target market.

Not all users are the same. Some borrow, some read newspapers, some surf the net, some ask for help, and some attend events etc. They aren’t all the same, you don’t treat them the same, and neither should you try to.

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 5/7/2010 thru 5/13/2010

1. kindness is one of the simplest things that make the biggest different How to Be Kinder: 11 Fine Tips If you only read one thing from this post read this one. We could use a little more kindness in the world and its far too underated. Don’t just look at the list go read the whole article.

1. Be grateful for what you got.
2. Express it.
3. Minimize judgments.
4. Take it easy with the criticism.
5. Try to understand the other side.
6. Make positive observations about people.
7. Remember the small and kind gestures.
8. Remind yourself. It’s easy to forget.
9. Awash yourself in the positive memories of the times when you were kind.
10. Take the smarter and higher road.
11. Be kind to yourself.

2. Internet Archive Launches Library for the Visually Impaired With 1M Books via @ALA_TechSource

The 1 million+ books in the Internet Archive’s library for print disabled, are scanned from hard copy books then digitized into DAISY — a specialized format used by blind or other persons with disabilities, for easy navigation. Files are downloaded to devices that translate the text and read the books aloud for the user to enjoy. To access books visit: http://openlibrary.org/subjects/accessible_book

3. New long post/rant on LiB: “Why internet filters don’t work and why libraries who filter are wrong“:  via @TheLiB – Sarah might call this a rant but it has more facts and statistics than any rant I’ve ever gone on. It is well worth reading and bookmarking should you need to defend your library’s choice to not filter.

4. Parents: Instead of Banning Your Kids from Social Networks, Consider Teaching Responsible Usage via @TheLiB @msauers – a well written response to an email from a school principal advising parents:

Learn as a family about cybersafety together at wiredsafety.org for your own knowledge. It is a great site. But then do everything I asked in this email – because there really is no reason a child needs to have one of these accounts.

5. Not Too Cool for Privacy: Young Adults Monitor Their Digital Reputations

…the young adults are as or more active in protecting their privacy than their older counterparts. Laura Holson reports inThe New York Times that an upcoming Pew Internet Project study finds “people in their 20s exert more control over their digital reputations than older adults, more vigorously deleting unwanted posts and limiting information about themselves.”

6. Girls Carve Out Their Own Space Online

According to an emerging body of research—including recent studies by Northwestern University communications professor Eszter Hargittai —the digital divide is frequently a gender divide.

Yet when it comes to blogging, young women are carving out their own niche. Katie Davis, a Harvard University doctoral student working with Howard Gardner’s Good Play Project, had originally sought out the popular online community LiveJournal to examine adolescent development, but when she discovered that the vast majority of bloggers in her age group (17-21) were female, she became curious. Did the girls’ online writing reflect the adolescent development process? And was it affected by the process?

7. Google Defends Privacy Policies In Letter to Commissioners via @ALA_TechSource

“We do not get everything 100 percent right – that is why we acted so quickly on Google Buzz following the user feedback we received,” Horvath and Fleischer wrote. “We’re also gratified that a number of you, in public statements, have expressed your satisfaction about how quickly we responded to those concerns.”

Both pledged to ensure “that privacy is designed into our products at every stage of the development cycle” and said that Google has a “team of seasoned privacy professionals, including legal, policy, security and engineering experts, to help guide the development of responsible privacy policies across Google.”

8. Awesome! RT @dmlcentral project by NY Times – Images from people around the world taken at the very same moment

9. Gartner’ 10 Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2010 and 2011

1. Bluetooth (3 and 4)
2. The Mobile Web
3. Mobile Widgets
4. Platform-Independent Mobile AD Tools
5. App Stores
6. Enhanced Location Awareness
7. Cellular Broadband
8. Touchscreens
9. M2M
10. Device-Independent Security

10. Ruling: Washington Libraries Can Deny Adults Unfiltered Internet

The Washington Supreme Court issued a 6–3 decision May 6 that affirmed a rural library system’s policy of refusing to temporarily disable an internet filter at an adult’s request. The ruling does not alter federal case law.

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/30/2010 thru  5/6/2010

1.very interesting! Social Media Withdrawal: What Happens When Kids Give Up Their Connections – fascinating! Definitely worth reading.

Among the top findings

1. Students use literal terms of addiction to characterize their dependence on media.
2. Students hate going without media. In their world, going without media means going without their friends and family.
3. Students show no significant loyalty to a news program, news personality or even news platform. Students have only a casual relationship to the originators of news, and in fact don’t make fine distinctions between news and more personal information. They get news in a disaggregated way, often via friends.
4. 18- to 21-year-old college students are constantly texting and on Facebook—with calling and email distant seconds as ways of staying in touch, especially with friends.
5. Students could live without their TVs and the newspaper, but they can’t survive without their iPods.

2. Gallery: 8 Tablets That Aren’t Made by Apple

3. Rethinking the professionalism of librarians; an MLS does not a professional librarian make via @level250geek from 10 Reasons Why “Professional Librarian is an Oxymoron”

1. Librarians Have No Monopoly On The Activities They Claim
2. There Are No Consequences For Failing To Adhere To Ethical Practices
3. Librarianship Is Too Generalized To Claim Any Expertise
4. ’Librarian’ Assumes A Place Of Work, Rather Than The Work Itself
5. Peer Review In Librarianship Does Not Work Because There Is No Competitive Process To Go With It
6. Values Are Not Enough
7. The Primary Motivation For Professionalization Is The Monopoly Of Labor
8. Accredited Library Schools Do Not Adequately Prepare Students For Library Work
9. Competing Professions Are Offering Different Paradigms To Achieve The Same Goals
10. Nobody Can Name A ‘Great’ Librarian

4 . Net neutrality NYTimes: Web’s Users Against Its Gatekeepers

With the majority of Internet traffic expected to shift to congestion-prone mobile networks, there is growing debate on both sides of the Atlantic about whether operators of the networks should be allowed to treat Web users differently, based on the users’ consumption.

5. dana boyd on The Changing Nature of Privacy on Facebook via @joycevalenza

Facebook is saying, “Ah, the social norms have changed. We don’t have to pay attention to people’s privacy concerns, that’s just old fuddy-duddies.” Part of that is strategic. Law follows social norms.

6. Reading list on ebooks in libraries. Librarything via @ALA_TechSource

7. Take Pictures, Tell Stories Part 4: Fun with Photos at Library Events – Cindi’s series on taking better photos is a great guide to taking better photos in the library and everywhere else!

8. “Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution.” - Clay Shirky via @jaclark – Does this apply to libraries?

9. Simple Tips for Getting Rid of a Bad Habits

1. Tell your friends and family.
2. Make it painful to not go through with it.
3. Listen to those who have gone where you want to go.
4. What will this lead to in 5 and 10 years?
5. Avoid temptations.
6. Replace it.
7. Don’t remove more than one habit at a time.
8. Don’t make a huge deal out of it.
9. If at first you don’t succeed dust yourself off and try again.

10. The Most Influential Women in Technology | Fast Company – this probably deserves its own post.

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I have paid very little attention to Facebook’s connections and the community pages it creates until yesterday. Yesterday I took a closer look at connections and my profile page.  Now like many libraries my library has a Facebook page it looks like this.

I kept the library in my work history when I click on that name on my info tab I see this – a community page.

At the top is says

Our goal is to make this Community Page the best collection of shared knowledge on this topic. If you have a passion for Chattahoochee Valley Libraries, sign up and we’ll let you know when we’re ready for your help. You can also get us started by suggesting a relevant Wikipedia article or the Official Site.

Wikipedia? really? ok.

Now I’m not sure what caused the creation I suspect it was me leaving it my work history. Fine. Why didn’t it tie to the official page? So I start looking into community pages.* This is what I’ve been able to determine. Basically they are automatically created, you can’t control them and the content that is posted on the wall is pulled from mentions of the keyword(s) within Facebook.

So if someone posts about your library it will show up on the wall like this.

Now for those of you worried about your privacy the good news is if you have your privacy settings right you wont show up to others

What does this mean for your library?

You might have a Facebook community page.  You might have more than one if there is any variation in the name or if you have branches.  Anything anyone posts on Facebook with the keyword will show up on the wall. You can’t control it. You can’t respond to it. Even if you “like” the page it wont show up in your news feed so you would need to go there to monitor it.

This maybe PRs worst nightmare.  You can’t replace it with an official page, you can’t ask them to delete it. The only thing I can suggest is if you don’t have a Wikipedia entry on your library or business, get one up.

*From Facebook’s FAQs

What are Community Pages?

• Community Pages are a new type of Page that enable you to see what people are saying about the things that matter to you, and discover the friends and people who share these connections with you. They are similar to any other Page to which you can connect, although they won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author. Where available, they also show Wikipedia content for the relevant topic, which Facebook has licensed under the creative commons license.
• We think your experience on Facebook will improve as your profile is turned into a living map of all the connections that matter to you, instead of a static list of your interests.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17110

How are Community Pages different from official Pages or Facebook Groups?

• Community Pages are built around topics, causes or experiences. Official Pages are maintained by authorized representatives of a business, brand, celebrity, or organization, and they can create and share content about the entities that they represent. Community Pages, on the other hand, won’t generate stories in your News Feed, and won’t be maintained by a single author.
• While Groups allow you to communicate directly with other people on Facebook about a specific subject, Community Pages simply enable you to learn more about and see what others are saying about additional topics that interest you.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17111

Can I edit the content on a Community Page?

• No. When available, we update the information and profile picture based on the article for that topic in Wikipedia. At this time, there is no way for people who choose to connect with a Community Page to add their own pictures or edit the information.  http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17112

How can I tell the difference between official Pages and Community Pages?

• Community Pages have slightly different content than official Pages. When available, they display a primary picture straight from the Wikipedia page of that topic, along with an info section also from Wikipedia. Related posts from other people on Facebook will also be displayed in real time.
• However, since Community Pages are another type of Page, we don’t differentiate between them when listed on your profile or in search results.
• http://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=17113

What if there isn’t a Wikipedia article for a Community Page topic?

• Community Pages are meant to be the best collection of shared knowledge on topics that interest you. Where available, they show Wikipedia content for the relevant topic, which Facebook has licensed under the creative commons license.
• If we can’t find the right article from Wikipedia, we might be asking for help from the community. You may see messaging on these Community Pages inviting you to make these Pages more useful and interesting by signing up to contribute in the future or by suggesting a Wikipedia article.

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/16/2010 thru 4/22/2010

1. NYTimes: Out of the Loop in Silicon Valley –  Sexism is still alive in Silicon Valley and pretty much everywhere else including libraries.

2. NYTimes: Web Coupons aKnow Lots About You, and They Tell – love coupons? Me too, but make sure you know what information you’re giving up when you get web coupons.

3. Two magazines, Newsweek and New York Teacher, offer competing views of what it will take to fix our schools via dmlcentral- the article the link goes to looks at two magazine covers but its worth actually reading the articles the covers are about.

4. Tim O’Reilly Explains the Internet of Things via mlx – be sure to read the article too

5. Are we surrendering our privacy too easily? Intriguing online conversation on MemeBurn via @dmlcentral – an absolute must read if you are thinking about privacy even a little.

6. Facebook’s move ain’t about changes in privacy norms - If you are looking for well thought out responses to claims that privacy is dead danah boyd is always dead on. Here is another great post from her about this issue comparing it to a face to face situation.

Public-ness has always been a privilege. For a long time, only a few chosen few got to be public figures. Now we’ve changed the equation and anyone can theoretically be public, can theoretically be seen by millions. So it mustn’t be a privilege anymore, eh? Not quite. There are still huge social costs to being public, social costs that geeks in Silicon Valley don’t have to account for. Not everyone gets to show up to work whenever they feel like it wearing whatever they’d like and expect a phatty paycheck. Not everyone has the opportunity to be whoever they want in public and demand that everyone else just cope.

7. Dear Non Library Followers: We’re looking 4 essays importance of libraries 4 savelibraries.org PLEASE WRITE 1 2day send lori at lorireed.com via baldgeekinmd

Savelibraries.org is the collaborative effort of my friends Heather Braum & Lori Reed.  If believe in the value and importance of libraries please, please share your story.

8. Making Your Boss Look Good (Without Becoming a Sycophant) – great suggestions on ways to make your boss look good without looking like a, well you know

9. Study finds young do care about online privacy – Security- msnbc.com – well duh, but studies are always nice back up for those conversations with non believers

10. yes it does! RT @gcaserotti: RT @buffyjhamilton Does the term “digital natives” do kids a disservice? – yes absolutely! It does a disservice to those children without access to technology, it does a disservice to those who have it but don’t understand how to use everything or the ramifications of some of the aspects.  They may be more comfortable with technology than some adults but they are still children.

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 4/23/2010 thru 4/29/2010

1.Facebook’s Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline – a must read. You know privacy settings on Facebook have been changing but just seeing the time line will put it in perspective.

2. CIOs say IT should not block socianetworking sites via @sabram

3.Texting and cellphones being used successfully in fight against malaria via @dmlcentral – love stories about tech being used to save lives

Using a mix of text messages, Google Maps and cloud software, organizers of a pilot program backed by IBM, Novartis and Vodafone believe they saved hundreds of lives in a few short months on the malaria-wracked African continent. Simply by tracking inventory in remote areas with greater efficiency, the anti-malaria groups were able to increase the chances that any given clinic would have life-saving medicine on hand by 300 percent.

4. Change is Hard Because Self-Control Wears You Out - Sources of Insight via @buffyjhamilton – a good look at why change is so hard

5. great read! 25 Lessons Learned from Seth Godin via @buffyjhamilton @presentationzen – also includes top 10 quotes and a list of quotes by subject. Handy resource to bookmark

Have a bunch of good runs before the sun sets.

Be remarkable.

Success is a skill.

Being the best is the best place to be.

Be missed.

Everybody is an expert about something.

Success is a hierarchy.

Don’t do A as a calculated tactic to get B.

Be in it for the long haul.

Quit the right things and lean into the right Dips.

Decide if you’re a freelancer or entrepreneur.

It’s like walking through a maze.

Everyone is not your customer.

Feed, grow, and satisfy the tribe.

Small is the new big.

Find the new scarce

It’s the FREE PRIZE INSIDE. ”

The third century is about ideas.

Spread your ideas.

Don’t wait for perfect.

Don’t get paid to alter your behavior.

The goal of reading is to choose what to change.

The world changes whether you like it or not.

The game of marketing has changed.

Feed, grow, and satisfy your business.

6. Digital Literacy is More Than Having the Knowledge of How to Use a Computer

“Digital literacy is more than having the knowledge of how to use a computer, what your software program does, what function or understanding how the hardware of your computer works. Digital literacy is also about using that knowledge to actually facilitate the learning process.” –  Clarissa Myrick-Harris, director of the UNCF’s Curriculum and Faculty Enhancement Program.

7. RT @UrbanLibCouncil: It isn’t good customer service to punish all library customers for the sins of a few.#ulcqueensbluesky

8. Excellent post from Gina Trapani about what to do with Facebook’s questionable privacy settings via @TheLiB – read it!

9. Great Post blowing my mind this morning: @brianmathews on what the future library might look like via @pbromberg

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My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 3/12/2010 thru 3/18/2010

1. Media Skills Integrated into Core Standards #transliteracy – A draft of K-12 standards put forth by the National Governor’s Association, as part of theCommon Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), integrates media skills as a key design consideration of these standards.

2. love this picture of the social media bandwagon - from @jimmy1712‘s blog.via @theREALwikimanv- even better it has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license!

3. Excellent primer on covering FCC broadband plan and why it matters via @knightfdn @ibarguen:

This is an issue that will touch just about every reader, viewer, listener and online user. After all, 35 percent of Americans (about 100 million people) do not have broadband access

4. FCC Proposes Digital Literacy Corps from the Libraries and Transliteracy blog

For millions of Americans, libraries and other public computing centers are important venues for free Internet access. Libraries are established institutions where non-adopters know they can access the Internet, but community centers, employment offices, churches and other social service offices play increasingly important roles. Low-income Americans and racial and ethnic minorities, in particular, rely on public institutions and community access centers for Internet access. Over half (51%) of African Americans and 43% of Hispanics who use the Internet do so at a public library.

5. “Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity“ danah boyd’s talk from SXSW

6. The death of the library book RT @civillibrarian: Interesting piece on public libraries in Salon

I wonder who this design is supposed to attract. If you’re not middle-class, college-educated, and adorned with an iPhone or laptop — or, more to the funding point, a potential donor — I have my doubts about how inviting this is.

7. I really need to start doing this! The Lost Practice of Resting One Day Each Week – there are some great reasons to take time off:  Healthier body, Less stress, Deeper relationships, Opportunity for reflection, Balance, Increased production, Reserve for life’s emergencies

8. RT @buffyjhamilton: “Nobody, but Nobody Can Make It Out Here Alone” – try Skype to connect with others when time and distance prevent you from doing it face to face.

9. Love this quote! “Knowledge isn’t power; the ability to act on knowledge is power ” from Should Honesty Be the Policy in Your Office?

10. HBR – the cardinal rule of rules: never break a rule

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When Facebook “upgraded” or “simplified” its privacy settings they removed the ability to turn off your recent activity feed (this was one update ago. I think).  Now everything you do posts to your wall and the news feed. You can not opt out. If you don’t like it Facebook says you’re welcome to use the “Remove” button.

Great except there is no “remove” button on any mobile version of Facebook and it’s a pain in the you-know-what to delete all of my activity every time I’m active on Facebook.

I may grumble a bit every time Facebook makes an “improvement” but I adjust pretty quickly and move on. I am just not getting over this one.  Every person I’ve spoken to about this has the same complaints I do.  If you search the Help Center you’ll see post after post about it.  You’ll see your friends complaining about it in their status updates.

This is what Facebook has to say about it:

Whether we display a story on your profile is now controlled by the privacy of the content itself, rather than an additional setting. For example, only people who can see both your Wall, and the Wall to which you posted would be able to see a story about you writing on a friend’s Wall. You cannot completely turn off recent activity stories anymore. However, if you want to remove a particular story that currently shows up, simply click the “Remove” button that appears to the right of the story after you move your mouse over it. Learn more about privacy here.

Yeah great, but WHY? I want to know why facebook remove the ability to turn off recent activity stories? What possible benefit am I missing to removing my option to check little box that allows me the illusion of privacy?

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Thinking about an ebook reader? Concerned about ebooks and privacy? Just curious? The EFF’s E-Book Buyer’s Guide to Privacy v1.1 has answers to questions like

• Can they monitor what you’re reading?
• Is the device ONLY compatible with books purchased from an associated eBook store?
• Can they keep track of book searches?
• Can they keep track of book purchases?
• With whom can they share the information collected in non-aggregated form?
• Can they share information outside the company without the customer’s consent?
• Do they lack mechanisms for customers to access, correct, or delete the information?

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Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb has put together 5 easy steps to help you stay safe on Facebook.

1. Make Friend Lists
2. Who Can See What on Your Profile
3. Who Can See Your Address and Phone Number
4. Change Who Can Find You on Facebook via Search
5. Stop Sharing Personal Info with Unknown Applications

Number 5 refers to an earlier post What Facebook Quizzes Know about You, I still see a LOT people taking these, so pay extra attention to this one!

They really are easy so you have no excuse go read how to do them!Similar Posts:

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