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A Social Network Nightmare
Posted by clioandme • 1 year ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS]
Topics: bebo, Security, social web
I had never known about Bebo, but this was probably not how that enterprise wanted me to learn about it. Seems people are getting matched with other people's data when they log in.
Source: jake-andrew.blogspot.com/2008/05/bebos-huge-error.html
Hat tip: twitter.com/socialspace/statuses/816239676
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I hadn't ever heard of it until I saw a show the other day where they were following the guy from mashable.com around. He hung out with the owner of Bebo for awhile and they were saying that 3 days later, Bebo was bought for $850 million or something crazy like that. Guess he sold at the right time, eh?-
Yikes!
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Oh, my.
My policy of providing only information which I wouldn't mind everyone on the planet reading doesn't seem so unreasonable, now.
I don't envy whoever is running Bebo.-
Not unreasonable at all.
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Interesting. I got the above tip from a professor and social media guy in New Zealand. He said he uses Bebo for communicating in one course, because it is the preferred social network of his students.
Sounds a little like how Facebook is for students in the US. I have heard that students do more Facebook than email, the latter being for "old people". (I'm quoting another historian and social media type on that last point.) Haven't gone down that route myself, though I know some profs do. Polled my students and some thought great and others were horrified by the prospect of a prof invading their "private" space. -
BTW, thanks for providing what I trust is my last "Apathetic Lemming" post of the day ( apatheticlemming.blogspot.com/2008/05/not-bebo-member-be-glad.html ): which links back here.
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You could always follow the hat tip to a twitter account to a tumblelog for the real credit for my source. (How's that for a chain of sources?
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I copied both links you gave - and linked back to this thread, so I think I've got proper citation.
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I was just messing with you, Norski.
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I cannot beleive anyone thinks anything is safe once it's on the net. That's the craziest thing I've ever heard! It's on the net! There's no privacy here ... I can't understand why people think there is.-
On Facebook there are various levels of accessibility, but once you give people access, you've got no control over what pictures they are copying and pasting and sharing.
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trust me...nothing is private. I had a facebook account for a few days then got rid of it. Even it you mark something as private doesn't mean it's private. I mean ... private to whom? Just go with the beleif that whatever you put out here is out in the universe and you'll be much happier. You don't want the universe to know...don't type it into the internet.
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You got that right. The lesson's been underlined for me a couple times in the past week.
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"I can't understand why people think there is." - that's a subject for study!
My own guess is that it's related to the 'out of sight, out of mind' mindset. But, that's just a guess. I'd say that the assumption is closely related to the perception of anonymity that so many people seem to have on the 'net. -
I think we're also dealing with different expectations of privacy. Could be that employers might have to be more forgiving of the next generation's vices they find online too, since so many will be guilty. Anyway, as far as expectations go, this is the generation that is always on, that is always available via IM, texting or cell phone.
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I think it has to do with age. I have visions of Fahrenheit 451 and other sci-fi books from my youth. Big Brother really is everywhere today ... and I'm not talking about the tv show. I did a post about big brother and that's what people under 40 thought I was talking about, LOL
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I see we were thinking along the same lines when we "simulposted".
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Yes, scary isn't it
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Yeah, that's why I don't do those things. I discovered several months ago that someone opened a MyBlogLog account using my blog URL, but presented the info on the MyBlogLog as if I were a porn site. Suddenly I was getting 1000's of hits. It was then that I realized the situation. Only to find out that 4 other duplicate MyBlogLog accounts had been created, all linking to my site. The kicker was that I had to fight tooth and nail with MyBlogLog to authenticate my own identity! And that I was, in fact, the owner of the blog which all these peeps were linking to. That's why I like Blog Catalog. They actually have real people who check out the blog, before accepting one's membership. -
So Andrew Long of Social Space Station, socialspacestation.com/, from whom I picked this story up yesterday, reports via twitter that now the mainstream press in New Zealand has picked up this story: www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10511780
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