review:ed Episode #3.3 – Facebook Privacy Issues Continued – Do we need to educate people on Privacy?

Facebook and the privacy. Sometimes I think you cannot keep up with all the “glitches” the social network number one (for the moment) has. After the recording of this episode the next one was revealed by the WSJ: Facebook sells your private data to advertisers like Doubleclick or Yahoo.

Hardly surprising if you ask me.

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Twitter Whoring – as seen on MySpace

Remember MySpace?

Sorry, I could not resist ;) . Fact is that MySpace still get millions of uniques every month and I won’t declare them dead yet, but this is another story. What is important about this first big social network is a certain kind of behaviour born around 2003/2005 that spread from MySpace to all other social media sites which came after it: whoring.

I think this background is very important so I want to share this with you before I will go to the different possible ways to use Twitter for online education companies and online teachers. So please bear with me :) .

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