On 24 May 2011, at 15:33, Richard Esplin wrote: > I don't think shunning all social media is necessarily the right approach. I > really enjoy LinkedIn's ability to let me track my friend's careers. Google > has made their share of mistakes, but I think they generally try and strike a > healthy balance (their data liberation initiative I think is very important > and I hope they learned from Buzz). Facebook seems oblivious to privacy > concerns. Sometimes they seem to take privacy concerns as a brainstorming > session for new revenue streams. > > It's going to take time to find the right balance. I'm sure we'll see lots of > creepy stuff on the way. >
I love technology. Just like any tool, it can be used for good or evil. I think Social Media is amazing. Of course, the more amazingly helpful a tool is for "the good guys" the more amazingly helpful it is to "the bad guys". Just because some "bad guy" has learned how to make my favorite tool into a demon spawner, I am not going to stop using it. I think it is important that everyone be made aware of the bad ways that tools can and are being used by those other people. This way we can each individually better able to use the tools wisely ourselves and teach our children appropriately. Being scared away from using a tool gives the bad guys more control over us. They win through the use of fear and terror. We lose when we let them get away with it. What a handy tool that handgun is. Uh oh, a bad guy used it to kill someone. That handgun tool must be bad. Shun the bad tool. Cower from the bad people that perverted what I at first thought was a good tool. Make some laws that hinder people from using that tool. Hmmm... odd, now only the bad people have that really handy tool and they have even more control over us because we stopped using it and have a more difficult time defending ourselves against their perverted use of the tool. All too familiar. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
