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May 27, 2010

Of Facebook and privacy control changes, daylight savings time and smoke alarm batteries

File this post under "I'm tired of hearing about Facebook privacy issues so much that I'd rather sleep while standing":


exhausted%20baby.jpg Are you tired of hearing about the Facebook privacy debate? Don't you just wish the company could just get it right? Are you concerned that toddlers across the land are tired of the Facebook privacy debate too? (See left.)

I think we all -- and Facebook -- should now agree to revisit the website's privacy issues twice a year, every year, when we turn our clocks forward and back. This Facebook-privacy debate has become such a ubiquitous phenomenon that we just need to settle on a periodic method for dealing with it, so it becomes automatic.

In my proposal, we will all be reminded bi-annually to double-check our privacy on Facebook, change our clocks and replace the 9-volt batteries in our smoke alarms.

Through all the public service announcements on TV and radio that cover clocks and smoke alarms, add double-checking your Facebook privacy settings to the list.


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Posted by Gus Sentementes at 10:24 AM | | Comments (1)
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I'm still trying to figure out what information on these sites can be used against you? The pictures are going to cause more harm than your date of birth.

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About Gus G. Sentementes
Gus G. Sentementes (@gussent on Twitter) has been writing for The Baltimore Sun since 2000. He's covered real estate, business, prisons, and suburban and Baltimore City crime and cops. He was one of the first reporters at The Sun to use multimedia tools and Web applications -- a video camera, an iPhone -- to cover breaking news. He hopes to cover Maryland geeks and the gadgets and Web sites they build, and learn -- and share -- something new every day.

Gus has a wife, a young daughter and two feuding cats. They live in Northeast Baltimore.
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