[Air-L] Facebook’s Friends Data Has Already Left the Barn

[Sam Ladner]

Folks,

See a story on TechCrunch that describes a new service that allows users to
export their facebook or bebo (among others). Users can put their data into
a feed for their own Web sites, for example. The article describes how this
might complicate facebook's ability to guard users' privacy.

I'm a little more interested in what it means for the digitization of
identity. Are people's identities becoming "co-mingling bits", as Negroponte
would have us believe?

I'm interested in what others on this list might have to say.

Here's the article:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/17/facebooks-friends-data-has-already-left-the-barn/

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Sam Ladner, PhD
Sociologist
Toronto