Tag Archives: privacy

Users revolt: blog network turns out to be owned by a marketing agency

Posted on 28 December 2007 by esme

Not a day goes by without some kind of revelation about what’s being done with our user-generated content and our personal information on social networking sites and blog networks. The scandal around Facebook’s Beacon project, whose aim is to track … Continue reading →

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Desperately seeking: time and privacy

Posted on 26 July 2007 by esme

I had just finished writing my post “Why Linked In does not work” where I explain why I left the business networking site (decluttering my life, stop wasting time), when I saw this post by Om Malik entitled “Can privacy … Continue reading →

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Why I’m not falling for the Facebook hype

Posted on 14 June 2007 by esme

Here I am again, this time on Facebook, typing in the same details I had typed in at Friendster, Orkut, Tribe and MySpace. I could have done it my sleep, answering the same inane questions about my favorite TV shows, … Continue reading →

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