Robert Hernandez: May 2010 archive
How Facebook's (flawed) privacy settings can help your reporting
May 20, 2010
Get past the awkward and dark predetermined searches like "I hate my boss," "I lost my virginity" and "I'm not a racist but" … and look at what youropenbook.org presents to us as journalists.While the 105 million+ people on Twitter know their tweets are default set to public, they are still a fraction of Facebook's 400 million+ users that post T.M.I. they'd only share with their closest 300 friends.
Facebook gives you a false sense of private… but by now you should know better.
The walls around the Facebook garden have crumbled because of the company's seriously flawed privacy settings.
And while as a user you should be freaked out and proactive about your personal settings (and more conscious of what you are posting!), as a journalist this is presents an incredible, unfiltered opportunity to access your community on a diversity of topics. More...
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