If you are concerned about your privacy online then boy oh boy do we have a good show for you today. In this weeks episode we covered privacy topics from yahoo launching a new service Google Buzz style privacy wise, good privacy sharing with flickr sending your pictures to facebook, and even a little politics about how elected officials SHOULD share and include us – social media wise into the government process to benefit everyone. We were also so fortunate to have someone who is somewhat of an actual privacy expert on the show as well. John S. W. Spinda, PhD, an assistant professor of organizational communication at Murray State University joined us to talk about Social Media & privacy as he teaches it at his University. What privacy concerns online do YOU have? Share with us in the comments!
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The Candidates Who Open Up Through Social Media Get My Vote
During the dawn of America in the era around 200 years ago, it could take days, even weeks before people received word of who won the Presidential election.
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We “Like” the newly Launched Analytics “Like Data on Facebook
Facebook has refreshed its insight’s dashboard for users to have an even more in-depth understanding of their demographics, from the “likes” “shares” and “reshares”. This is available to Facebook page owners, application developers and to you that have opted to utilize Facebook’s social plugins.
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Flickr Integrates with Facebook
Warning. Privacy risk for Yahoo Users. You must opt-out of new service!
This week, Yahoo! started to leverage its Yahoo! Mail users’ contacts into a social network of friends who will receive your Yahoo! Updates. Like Google Buzz’s initial launch problem using Gmail contacts, Yahoo! wants to jump start its social networking plans with the hundreds of millions of people who already use its email and messenger services so anyone who has YOU in THEIR address book will automatically see all pictures you upload to flickr, stories you buzz on Yahoo! Buzz, what you rate movies, and the deepest private questions you ask for help on Yahoo! Answers. Want to disable this? You need to go to three places:
http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/updates/ – uncheck the box next to Share My Updates.
http://profiles.yahoo.com/settings/permissions – and uncheck “Allow my connections to share my information labeled ‘My Connections’ with third-party applications.” While on this page, you should review your settings, and adjust the privacy levels as appropriate. This page also allows to to hide your profile entirely.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/y/settings – click on “Manage privacy settings.” A pop-up window will appear, with a list of checkboxes. Here you can opt out of sharing a variety of information, and choose to hide your profile. To maximize privacy, everything should be deselected, except the last option “Hide my profile.”
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Guest: John S. W. Spinda, PhD is an assistant professor of organizational communication at Murray State University in Western Kentucky. A great deal of his research and teaching activity revolves around social networking and computer-mediated communication.
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