Does the Privacy Conversation Exist In a Bubble?

08 Jun 2010

I got pretty excited about watching some liveblogging of the Facebook privacy announcement a few weeks back (I watched via Read Write Web’s use of a cool new tool called Unawave). I told a friend about this over lunch last week, and she laughed at me. I get this often, as I’m always trying to discuss the intricacies of social networks and online human interaction. My friends humor me, briefly, then make it clear that it’s time to move on. Perhaps We Are The Others Key takeaway here? They don’t care. I have a lot of friends in education, consulting, finance and various non-profit work and, thus, I have very few friends who interact with social media for business purposes. What I’ve found is that, while these people may have updated their privacy settings in the last few months (as have the majority of users), they are largely unconcerned. While they…

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