November 07, 2007

Don Dodge gets it.


What if? - OK, what if I am a friend of someone on MySpace. Cool, my name and picture appears on their friends list and anyone can see it. But what if this MySpace friend joins a PornSpace social network site and wants to import his friends list to that site? Now my name and picture shows up on his PornSpace page as a friend of his? Hey, wait a minute, I didn't agree to that. How do I control where my name and picture go once I become a friend of someone? Will there be guilt by association?

2 comments:

John Powers said...

Via a post at the Social Software Intellectuals Tribe Profile Spam Trap a link to John Scalzi and from there to Cory Doctorow.

You've written about this problem, and actually have some good solutions for YASNs. But Salzi's solution is one a lot of people employ. On the other hand it's pretty hard to escape if you hang out with polyamorous hippies that sooner or later others will find out.

Composing said...

More at Brudnopis : http://brudnopis.blogspot.com/2007/11/people-i-know.html