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A short piece I wrote for AOLnews about why Peep culture trumps privacy online. http://bit.ly/bQECsC
Data Theft
2008,
1:31 GMT
Guy Sells His Twitter Account on Ebay
Posted by: Hal
So here’s an interesting little tale. This guy Andrew Baron sold his Twitter account on Ebay a few days ago. I don’t know how much he got for it but a blog that reports on Twitter doings reported that at one point the bid was up to $1,125.00 USD. As Andrew Baron had 1,636 followers, the blog notes that each of his followers are worth 0.69 USD at the very least.
So I guess the question is: how much is a good account worth? I’ve got 500 Facebook friends, should I cash in? Deal or no deal? It’s sort of like buying a World of Warcraft character that’s already been built up to have tons of extra powers. Something like that. Anyway, from a peep perspective many interesting questions are raised, mostly around how much dedicated followers with a demonstrated ongoing interest in peeping your life are worth.
For the record, here’s what Andrew put up on Ebay about selling his account: “It would be silly to just delete this account I have here, especially if there is someone out there that had like interests and had something to say or wanted to get involved in some relevant conversations. In terms of monetary value, I have no expectations or needs at all so I decided not to put a minimum bid on this. Whatever will be, will be.”
2009,
11:27 GMT
Deleted Photos Linger on Networking Sites
Posted by: Hal
A Cambridge study concluded that “a dismal 7 of the 16 sites failed to revoke photos after 30 days”. In other words, when they uploaded and then deleted photos from various social networks, blog sites and photo sharing sites, they found that the photos remained in the system 30 days later 7 out of 16 times. Sites that continued to retain photos included Facebook, MySpace and LiveJournal.
It doesn’t take much of an imagination to think of all kinds of ways people might exploit the loophole of the lingering pics.
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Hey, I’m Hal Niedzviecki. I’m a writer/thinker who lives in Toronto, Ontario, Canada with my wife and daughter. Up till now I’ve always considered myself a private person. But at the same time I’m fascinated by people who effortlessly open themselves up to the whole world. So I’ve… more...
A short piece I wrote for AOLnews about why Peep culture trumps privacy online. http://bit.ly/bQECsC
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