The more binary understanding of public or private space is being challenged by Danah Boyd who uses examples from Google Buzz and how and why it has failed displaying content and behaviour which the users thought quite intimate and private. And how Facebook made a huge breach of contract with their users when they changed the privacy settings leaving the users to think that their content was still private while it was available to everyone.

The notion of privacy is also determined by age: Teenagers are more conscious about what they have to gain by being in public compared to adults who seems more concerned about what they have to lose.

Read the article on TechCrunch by Danah Boyd on  How Technology Makes a Mess of Privacy and Publicity

Iben

So I woke up today and logged on to my gmail account to try it out. Well, a bit disappointed I realized they haven’t equipped my account with the buzz button yet.

So did anybody out there try it yet – and is the buzz worth all the buzz?

/ iben

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