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

[Marina Sokolova]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sam Ladner" <samladner at gmail.com>
To: "AoIR mailing list" <air-l-aoir.org at listserv.aoir.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 4:07 PM
Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's Friends Data Has Already Left the Barn


> 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/
>
> -- 
> ~~~~~
> Sam Ladner, PhD
> Sociologist
> Toronto
> _______________________________________________
> The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: 
> http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/