May 3, 2010

San Francisco Chronicle Quotes Jen King's Research

From The San Francisco Chronicle

You're exposed - take it and like it

By Phil Bronstein

I like you.

That doesn't mean I want you to know I spent $43.41 at Blockbuster or what I rented.

But digital sharing of everything all the time is the new black.

"We're building toward a Web where the default is social," says Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, who has sneaked up on Google in the world-domination sweepstakes by creating a toy called Open Graph, by which even your most mundane actions and reactions get seen by a lot of people who are loosely defined as your friends....

Do people necessarily want less privacy even as they dive into the deep end of the pool on social media? A recent UC Berkeley study [by I School doctoral student Jen King] concluded that young people care as much about privacy as oldsters but are less aware of the potential threats....

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