Swedens biggest newspaper Dagens Nyheter (DN) has a piece on Facebook and integrity today. I believe that a lot of the people signing up to a Facebook account just ignores the EULA, I know that I did. But now the DN warns the swedes that Facebook owns everything you add to the application.
You may believe that it is free to join, but you pay with your personal integrity and future. 30 years from now when applying for a job, the recruiter may be able to read everything you have written.
The European Union, through its Agency for Network Security (ENISA), also informs the citizens of the European Union on Social Networks, Security and Personal Integrity in a press-release named How Safe is ‘Social Networking’?.
There you can read
Thousands of young people are revealing the most intimate details of their personal lives for everyone to see
I think it is interesting and important that these issues arise. People tends to like the open atmosphere as long as everything runs smoothly, but as soon as it gets used the wrong way, it will be a little more complicated.
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This is funny how people get uptight about their privacy… like they are important or live some kind of awesome secret lifes. Let facebook collect all the info, hope they dont run out of server space.
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