Social networking and all that is ok when you’re using it to keep in touch with friends, make arrangements with friends and post pictures of your friends for said friends. When random people can go and see how old you are, your address, your credit card details and your mother’s maiden name….there’s something amiss.

The point I was attempting to get at is that it ISN’T considered a problem in society when this sort of thing is online, but if it were to happen in the real world, it would be questionable behaviour. Are you telling me that if this was all happening in the flesh that you wouldn’t consider it some kind of invasion of privacy?

It’s because it’s online and not in the physical sense that it isn’t such an invasion of privacy. You can escape from Facebook and Twitter. You wouldn’t be able to if it were happening on your doorstep. This post is about what it would be like IF it were to happen in real life, and why it’s considered OK to do it online.

It wasn’t a personal attack on anybody, but a rather general questioning of why the internet is evolving into a culture where everything everyone does affects everyone else. I don’t think anyone would be interested in what I’m eating for breakfast, therefore I don’t make a Twitter post explaining it. I’m not interested in what everyone else has had for breakfast, therefore I don’t go looking at people’s Twitters to find out. But there are those on the web that can’t live without knowing whether or not some guy on the other side of the world is enjoying their waffles. Why does it matter?

I know the lines saying “Who’s sad enough to…” etc are a bit harsh, but they’re the extreme circumstances. They’re the stereotype. It’s not a personal attack on anybody.

Like with the picture thing - again, the extreme case, where people who have public profiles are showing pictures of people who are not them, and linking to a page which contains a lot of personal information. They’re asking for identity theft. You on the other hand have a private profile, its not like you’re parading pictures of me around to the populace of the planet, like some people are with other people’s photos.

Facebook does have privacy control to some degree, of which I am grateful. But not everyone uses them. Some people think its fine to go around letting any old Tom, Dick and Harry view their pictures, know their e-mail address and initiate contact with them. You wouldn’t go up to some random person in the street and offer to show them your entire photo collection. Yet that’s what some people are doing online. At least the people you’re showing your pictures to are people you know. Notice the post starts with someone you don’t know knocking your door? No, you’d reject them, just like you rejected that girl from school who tried to add you to Facebook.

You know my feelings about Facebook, and the whole Social Networking palaver, and this post doesn’t say anything that I haven’t said to you before.

Thanks for making my day sooooooooooo much better…

Good to know that you find my posts interesting!

There’s tons of information on the web about using your Mac as a server. The best link I could find was http://macos-x-server.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

There seems to be a whole load of information about setting up the services on Mac OS X.
Have fun!

Cheers, Bev.

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