Losing privacy sooner than you think (thanks Facebook!)

Now as we are a young people share the most of details of our personal life on social-networking web sites, such as Facebook and blogs that is preserved on the Internet, maybe forever. At most college campuses, more than 90% of students maintain their age, their occupation, their level of education, their place of residence? I think most of us would have no problems providing this level of general information. While the religious views, political inclinations, relationship status, etc. Perhaps this is a little more private and maybe you feel less comfortable with this level of information but also most of us would be fairly relaxed about providing this information.
On the other side our parents, for whom recollection of the past in thier fading memories, photographs or at best, in videos. This change raises redefining what is public and what is private? That openness is both good and bad. People can now spread their ideas everywhere without reliance on publishers. But also creates threats to privacy and reputations. So can we prevent a day which we can't control our information and the privacy are beyond our control? Some technologists say NO!! Privacy is not compatible with a world in which information flows so freely. As Sun Microsystems' CEO Scott McNealy said “You already have zero privacy anyway.. Get over it”!! And there are many articles and books have heralded the "destruction", "end" and "death" of privacy. But I think it's still possible to protect privacy, by rethink classical understandings of the concept of privacy "that requires total secrecy" becaouse this concept is unsuitable to an online world. Maybe the more suitable understanding of privacy is that everyone should keep some control over his personal information that becomes available for public.
As it's known that privacy is the user's responsibility, in the middle of December, Facebook began prompting users to re-evaluate their privacy settings on the site. Founder and CEO of Facebook, in defense of Facebook's privacy changes last January “People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time.” And more recently, in introducing the Open Graph API “... the default is now social.” this means Facebook not only wants to know everything about you, but to make you available to everyone. Even if you adjust all your privacy settings as a private "friends only". It's shared with applications that you use. Which means now you're not only trusting only Facebook, but the application developers too. So that's why I think, the future of Facebook is the end of privacy.
I know that privacy doesn't mean secrecy... but I think it's still important!!

Chirp!

In January 2010, nearly 75 million people visited Twitter according to comScore. When people started talking about twitter, the first thing they would always mention was the 140-character limit on tweets, "Who can say anything in only 140-character!". It could be a challenge when a person starts writing tweets and keeping it just 140-characters. You actually have to think a bit about how to force your thoughts to fit the format, but by the time you can adapt and 140-characters starts to seem long. Your tweets becomes shorter and uses the full 140-characters it becomes kind of annoying "I am going to cancel this tweet it's so long".
Unlike other social media Facebook for example, Twitter very simple to connect with people who are interesting, I would actually stop going to facebook, I might check it once or twice a week, sometimes feel it is offers me nothing more than twitter. Maybe my twitter following list seem to be few but really I don't like crowd friends! I wish more of my friends use twitter as well, I had explained to them How twitter was on the cutting edge but I guess they didn’t see it :(
Yes, may be twitter is not so much about the information and useful links but if you ask anyone who uses twitter on a regular will tell you that the power of twitter is that its ability to connect you to other people.
Some people think that twitter is silly and not interesting, they consider it a waste of time!! but really I don't think so,

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: What! you too? I thought I was the only one" Lewis

Do you think Google \/\/ave will kill other social networks?

Google Wave is a hot topic at the moment, everyone is talking about it, I started using google wave a few weeks ago, it is actually closer to IM and cool with your friends or active colleagues. The first thing you notice is that you can see people chatting live, one big advantage over email is that when your friend sends you a message on wave, you can reply to each part separately and even edit the parts you want its give you a nice way to understand the conversation. Also, you can talk about sections of wave documents in real time, where people see what you are typing as it is typed, if you come to the conversation late, you can replay everything you've missed. It is so easy to add new participants to the wave or restrict parts of a wave to some of the participants.

Now the big question: Will wave kill email and IM?
Some say that google wave could seriously impact email and IM but as much as I love google wave I really don't think this is going to kill them, at least for a long time. (google wave may be the future, but not in real-time)

For anyone interested, I still have several google wave invitations left. If you would like one of those invitations, leave a comment below asking for one and I'll send you an invite.