Privacy and the Internet…as considered by An Average Schmo.
Monday, May 24, 2010 at 11:46PM So I have been listening to Leo Laporte, Cory Doctro and reading Scobolizer. I’ve been trying to see if I can use their wisdom filled options to help shape my own simple view on this controversial subject. So let’s see. They are public people with thousands of followers. Thousands! And me? I have maybe 300 followers on twitter and 250 friends on Facebook. There is your proof I can proudly refer to myself as “an average schmo.” How can I relate to the Leo Lapote’s and scobolizer’s of the world? I think to myself in my privately invaded space, “Does what I have in my humble life map to their globally conscience options?” Drum roll, please… “Nope.”
While I am opposed to Facebook's new draconian privacy stance I know the naked truth…I can't delete my Facebook account. Can you? It’s the tool I use every day to communicate with the 250 friends this average schmo has around the world. That’s a lot of frequent flier miles Facebook is saving me. LOL
Okay. That said, here is another fact. I’m a professional techie. I know what centralized data can do for the profitability of a company. I know they have to make money to succeed. I can’t survive without making money. Can you? And so we come to it… I want my cake (total privacy) and I want to eat it, too (Facebook completely free). How am I going to be an instrument of change?! How can an average schmo force Facebook and other social networking businesses to take my privacy seriously?!
I don’t have a clue. Do you?
AlanNYC