Comments on: How Spying On Your Friends Causes Reevaluation of Endorsed Content

By: Mickey Mouse

Mickey Mouse — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:26:05 +0000

Thank God we still live in a world where you can get internet privacy, even if it comes at a price. Since we the people have been deemed unworthy to maintain our own internet privacy, what has the world come to?

By: Good Customer Service is Good Social Media Marketing » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg

Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:40:55 +0000

[...] their thoughts and feelings, be them positive or negative. Blogs can also convey information, share ideas, and chronicle important lifetime milestones. In today’s day and age, it is incredibly easy [...]

By: Christopher

Christopher — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:30:27 +0000

I left the german equivalents of LinkedIn and Facebook altogether. In one case because of privacy issues. What I think is the problem here: gathering information is not the big thing. That’s easy to do. Beeing an aggregator, heck, my old email-inbox can be that for me. To difficult thing todo, the thing that would add value to the user, would be making distinctions easy. Like organizing your contacts in something better than “groups”.

By: veronicaromm

veronicaromm — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:15:33 +0000

I never thought that someone might want to spy on my activity, but I guess that I am simply naive. I guess I just cant imagine going to the trouble, I am too lazy to follow someone. However if they did want to they could certainly pick up patterns. I spend most of my time on SU so I am not hard to find. Great post.

By: Friend Feeds Underappreciated Value � The Comment Nexus | Broadcasting Brain

Mon, 19 May 2008 19:40:43 +0000

[...] or a lifestreaming application � one-stop shopping for all of your online creative output. Tamar Weinberg and Maki (Dosh Dosh) have written some good overview articles about FriendFeed (Robert Scoble also [...]

By: Sumesh

Sumesh — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:17:39 +0000

The internet’s a bad place for privacy and anonymity anyway.

Social networks are not much of a concern, unless you’re talking what you’re not supposed to.

Digg’s quite good in that respect – burying posts will not be revealed publicly. Mixx’s a criminal in that aspect

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 01 May 2008 23:47:47 +0000

Brilliantly stated, Jacob.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 01 May 2008 22:16:25 +0000

With FriendFeed, anything you share becomes a part of your personal brand. Even if you shared your social media profiles on your blog/website in the past, FriendFeed forces your actions across all social networks upon your friends and makes them much more public. You can no longer behave one way on digg and another way in StumbleUpon.

As more and more social interaction gets pulled together on the Web, I think people will lose a little bit of freedom and privacy. Your friends in one social network may not be on the same wavelength as your friends on another, but you now show both groups what you are doing online.

In a way, FriendFeed makes the Internet more like the “real world” where you have to think about what your actions say about you. Some people have avoided making that call on the Internet thus far through avatars, but that won’t fly with FriendFeed.

By: Tamar Weinberg

Tamar Weinberg — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:12:00 +0000

The difference here versus Facebook is that Friendfeed is really your one-stop-shop to learn more about your friends' behaviors. If you want to use Facebook to know about what content your friend likes, you'd have to specifically navigate to his profile. This is no longer the case when using Friendfeed. I just have to go to my Friendfeed home page to see what people are saying, as it's in one single location.

By: Charlie Anzman

Charlie Anzman — Thu, 01 May 2008 14:08:49 +0000

Hey Tamar. While some people simply don’t have to worry about this, others should. It’s been a long running ‘issue of education’ with Facebook etc. Aspiring kids in college, teachers, etc. “not reading the book” first.

Can be devastating. Can also be extremely productive if used properly …. and FUN!