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Facebook Circle of Trust, Irony and Thought Exercises

Oct 31, 2007
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In an effort to do more with less I offer up this piece of a thought provoking screen real estate for marketing and security professionals to ponder. Is this an oxymoron? Is this irony? Is this relevant?

Wayne’s Fun Exercises

1) Primer: If you cannot find any trace of thought provoking irony in this snapshot I suggest you read Steve Hodson for a warm-up.

2) Is trust given or earned? After reading this privacy policy carefully. as well as other referenced terms and pages, which word would you choose to describe this social network’s attitude toward trust- given or earned?

3) Cookies in cross hairs- again. Read Steve Rubel’s take on the Do Not Track list. As Steve points out the FTC might be concerned with privacy. Do you feel this concern is for your privacy or that you might actually get some?

4) Write an essay on how Robert Dinero makes you feel in that movie, Meet the Fockers, you know where the guy milks a cat and the whole “Circle of Trust Thing” is discussed. Describe the deeper meanings of Dinero’s character as it applies to large scale meta-networks or Google getting into the social game.

5) When you put a credit card in a number of real world, networked automated credit card processing terminals, e.g. a parking garage, do you know where this data goes or how it could be used to construct your habits and haunts? Do you really care?

6) Bonus: Is what you do or say on the Net as important as what you do not do?

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Post Script: Comments are currently not working on this post- Defer to Sam Harrelson. While I really do enjoy comments, think of this lack of feedback as a feature add- a post that does put any strains on your social network.

[Edit: Comments fixed!]

Filed under: Security Issues
  • http://www.wayneporter.com/ Wayne Porter

    You mean you took away a feature add Sam. Thanks.

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com/ Carsten Cumbrowski

    1) no comment
    2) earned of course. The choice of words by FB is not the best since you don't mean that you actually trust that apps provider but that you have not found a reason yet to mistrust them :)
    3) nope, but then, if you are looking for privacy then you should not go to a social network. It's like looking for privacy on the local fair grounds
    4) Don't recall the scene, but Robert played a guy who worked for the CIA, so… hehe
    5) nope and
    6) yup

    Note to 6), that's why are people paying cash at places where they are not supposed to be .. officially, even if credit cards are accepted :)

  • http://www.wayneporter.com Wayne Porter

    Thank you for playing.

    1) See six

    2) choice of words is everything. How can I make any determination of say…Lottery Game?

    3) I never said social networks. I said cookies…

    4) irony with bitter almond taste of cyanide. Good catch.

    5) Common here. Offline gets different rules.

    6) agreed

  • http://www.cumbrowski.com/ Carsten Cumbrowski

    Sorry for the late response :)

    Soo 2 and 3 are still "open"… lets see:

    2) Life is tough, get a lawyer :)

    3) Okay, cookies then. Before I start crying because of (tracking) cookies, am I crying because of RFIDs in the real world. At least with cookies am I having a choice and can block them all or selective (if I would be Mr.Paranoid) or I could turn off the computer and still be fine. I can't turn off myself and will not have a choice to block RFIDs.