Those of us who have reason (or delusion) to prefer a little more privacy, might be interested in a tool provided by ReclaimPrivacy.org that scans and tells you the effects of your privacy settings. Thanks Paul Pival, Distant Librarian, for mentioning it.
As I have previously taken a radical approach to improve my Facebook privacy settings my results on using the scanner were not so colourful as Paul's, so I'm kwouting his image:
If you'd like this kind of perspective on your Facebook privacy settings, see how at:
Hm, and this is still good knowledge for librarians who don't intend to use Facebook, like... ever: This adds to our Informacy 2.0 (oh ick I know, but its the shortest way to refer to informacy in the context of a social networking environment).
Usually when thinking about informacy (a.k.a. "Information literacy") we focus on finding, evaluating, using information. However, Beth Kraemer (2009) (a.k.a Alice Burgess in Second Life) of University of Kentucky referred to libraries who include in their "information literacy" classes instructing students in being responsible producers of information. Particularly protecting their reputation and privacy through responsible Facebook use but also googling themselves and being aware what others put out about them.
"That embarrassing picture you posted on Facebook" Slide 9 Web 2.0 & Information Literacy by Alice Burgess / Beth Kraemer
Originally uploaded by moonflowerdragon.
Non-linkable references
Kraemer, B. (2009, November). Web2.0 & Information Literacy. Presented at Web2.0 Approaches to Information Literacy Panel, ACRL, ALA Island, http://slurl.com/secondlife/ALA%20Island/56/191/29/
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