Twitter

Agreed.

So what's twitter? I went to the link, but I don't get it...is it a chat site? One of a sort of which I have not been to?

Sorry, I'm not that good with internet stuff. I actually have not had it that long and don't go to it daily, well, sometimes I do...though it's usually just the same little group of sites, I don't visit many new places.

you are entirely right, but how does that not make my point about facebook being invasive not 100% true?

Facebook may allow people to upload pictures of fellow members, but that doesn't make the site itself invasive. I don't see how the site could possibly keep every person from uploading pics of other people or from saying things about other people. If you don't want a certain pic of you posted or certain things about you said, you have to take action by sending a message to the person who posted the pic or said the thing and asking them to remove it. If they don't, then there's nothing you can do. That's free speech. Just like how in real life, I can say what I want about a person to my friends.



Twitter is sort of like a mini-blog site. You join and then start "following" people and then people start "following" you. Following means that the person's posts can be seen. If I start following you, then I can see what posts you make. But it's meant to be small stuff, and there's a limit to the number of characters allowed in a single post. So, you can't make a long post about how you hate or love a show, but you can say, "This show sucks" or "Read this link for some interesting news."

It's not that the picture is being posted that make the site invasive, it's the fact that anyone can go and look through those pictures, there is no lock or limit and the few that they advertise can easily be bypassed. Look at it this way, people have been denied jobs because of something a company found on facebook about said person... It's not always that person's fault for posting it either. The fact that the site promotes stalker like behavior alone should be enough to consider it invasive.

before see it i actullay forget twitter! i see it only on my blog|= =|

I've heard about companies using Facebook and similar sites to check out applicants and then turning out applicants because of what they saw online. The thing is, if you don't want stuff to be used against you, then don't do it. If I get drunk at a party and run around naked, someone could record it and put it online, and that could keep me from getting a job, but someone could also just tell the company about my doing that, and I could not get the job. The sites themselves are not invasive. Only people are to blame.

Besides, the sites don't promote stalker-like behavior. That's people, again. Each person can post as much or as little as they want. Some people list every job they've worked at and every school they've attended, but it's not mandatory. It is entirely possible to join a social-networking site and have just three friends and no drama or bullshit. You and your friends don't even have to talk about anything, just use the site to communicate without email or calling each other. Yeah, people from real life can find you, but you could, you know, lie and give a fake name and a fake location and a fake everything else and only give the link to your profile to trustworthy friends. Now, how is that invasive?

so just because people can do it on other sites means that face book is not invasive? no, it simply means it's as invasive as any other site where people can place inappropriate information and content about someone else up.

and the fact that it's people who decide to stalk also doesn't change the fact that the site facilitates that choice... you're not even debating the same thing I'm debating... you keep changing what this is about and I keep bringing it back.

I agree with this for the most part, but for the sake of my own privacy I try not to get overly specific with things (such as my name, photo, or city I live in). I like people not knowing everything about me.

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Surely, as has partly been said, it is the individual's fault that someone would want or be able to post innappropriate images or information about them? Either you've done something stupid, pissed someone off or given your details away. Facebook and other sites can be invasive, but it isn't what they were designed for; if you aren't responsible enough in real life to deny people the oppertunity, you can't then moan about human nature and a site whose terms you have accepted. Besides that, it's hardly the first medium to be exploited like this - telemarketing anyone? You wouldn't call the telephone invasive, but if you let your info get out it certainly can be.

I'm not entirely sure what your point is. You say Facebook (and similar sites) are invasive, but I don't see how. Similar to what doswillrule says, a phone book can be used to stalk people people, but that doesn't mean that a phone book is invasive, and the same goes for Facebook.

The sites are as invasive as real life is. I can't stop people from saying stuff about me in the real world or on the internet.

Thank you, phone book was more what I meant. I was tired. :P

bleh I wrote a reply earlier but fakku went down and i closed firefox down, not sure if i'm going to bother recreating it as i don't care at all.

LEt it be internet or a cellphone. The second you open it up and used it. SOMEONE IS STALKING YOU! No such thing has ''privacy'' anymore