Comments on: Building Walls in Facebook http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2007/11/20/building-walls-in-facebook/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:10:43 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: digital privacy and facebook at Left Behind Bottle Caps http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2007/11/20/building-walls-in-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-5 digital privacy and facebook at Left Behind Bottle Caps Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:12:41 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2007/11/20/building-walls-in-facebook/#comment-5 [...] Building Walls in Facebook There are, of course, still millions of college students who post anything and everything to their profile, with no qualms about who sees it. Call it negligence, call it expression, it doesn’t matter. What does matter, and what interests me, is the growing group of students who have taken control of their digital identity by using granular security settings; ones that allow you to control who sees what, on a per-person and per-item basis. Potential employers have been prowling Facebook for at least a couple years, so why the change now? It’s simple: they’re out of the shadows. [...] [...] Building Walls in Facebook There are, of course, still millions of college students who post anything and everything to their profile, with no qualms about who sees it. Call it negligence, call it expression, it doesn’t matter. What does matter, and what interests me, is the growing group of students who have taken control of their digital identity by using granular security settings; ones that allow you to control who sees what, on a per-person and per-item basis. Potential employers have been prowling Facebook for at least a couple years, so why the change now? It’s simple: they’re out of the shadows. [...]

]]> By: Arthus Erea http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2007/11/20/building-walls-in-facebook/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Arthus Erea Tue, 20 Nov 2007 21:00:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2007/11/20/building-walls-in-facebook/#comment-4 I've been seeing this trend from all ends of the age spectrum - teenagers and 40-year-olds alike. Personally, I chose to restrict access to only friends and am very restrictive in who I allow to be my friend. Another trend I have been seeing is people creating dual identities. Recently, friends have approached me to make them a website and help them with sorting out privacy settings on their social networking sites. The savvier ones put all personal stuff on Facebook, lock it up tight, and open up an account on a professional network like <a href="http://linkedin.com" rel="nofollow">LinkedIn</a> for prospective employers to see. (Glad you guys finally got a blog) I’ve been seeing this trend from all ends of the age spectrum – teenagers and 40-year-olds alike. Personally, I chose to restrict access to only friends and am very restrictive in who I allow to be my friend.

Another trend I have been seeing is people creating dual identities. Recently, friends have approached me to make them a website and help them with sorting out privacy settings on their social networking sites. The savvier ones put all personal stuff on Facebook, lock it up tight, and open up an account on a professional network like LinkedIn for prospective employers to see.

(Glad you guys finally got a blog)

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