Janet Collins
Billy MMy Space to become 'Their' Space
December 7th 2006 12:10
Tom Anderson's personal profile - Most are more revealing,
It's all over the digital headlines: "MySpace faces worm spreading to Your Space". Yes, it’s another day on the information superhighway; but this latest threat, alarmingly, came just 4 hours after USA’s Boston Herald reported: “Cops scour MySpace for missing Wrentham teen”. What’s all that about? While sex offenders are searching the database for attractive, young, single women, hackers are plotting some digital anarchy. Without cyber police or some other sort of deployable taskforce, our hyper-reality is really starting to byte. In a world so vast, public and anonymous, a single conversation is dangerously private. Lives can quickly become untraceable.
When chat became mainstreamed through social networking, a new danger was born. My own Space, for example, receives ‘friend requests’ from bands and people I have never heard of, never spoken to. Yet my life becomes open to them in an instant. Moreover, it is socially necessary, not merely permissible, to publish one’s schools, companies and places frequented. This is a place where the privacy of ordinary conversation and the secrecy of personal thought are forever lost. And it all seemed so innocent…
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Comment by Anonymous
Reading your post made me realise how easy it is for people to access my myspace and know exactly what I will be doing, as many of my friends will leave comments such as "are you going to ___ tomorrow?" It is so easy for someone to log on and find out where I will be spending a night partying, where I work and also for other people, what school they go to! We're making it way too easy for stalkers, sex offenders etc.
And to think you don't even need a myspace account to be able to access other peoples!!
I have now changed a lot of my settings to make myspace more private and removed a few details!
Thanks for the heads up!
Comment by AnthonyB
Thanks for posting!