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Firstly, have you seen what happens if you go to delete your Facebook account? Marshall Kirkpatrick has a screenshot at Read Write Web.
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Now what actually sparked this post is one by Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine, Confusing *a* public with *the* public where he opinions that
This notion of private publics is one I don't recall encountering before, and I quite like it. It nicely fills the gap between a carefully maintained friends list/filters and "This might appear on tomorrow's news". It's just a size smaller than "Everyone in my social circle/s can read this, and I'm not thinking too carefully about the rest of the world".
It's a lot like the idea of Tribes - but specifically related to the dissemination of information about ourselves (and potentially others).
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Now what actually sparked this post is one by Jeff Jarvis at BuzzMachine, Confusing *a* public with *the* public where he opinions that
Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg seem to assume that once something is public, it’s public. They confused sharing with publishing. They conflate the public sphere with the making of a public. That is, when I blog something, I am publishing it to the world for anyone and everyone to see: the more the better, is the assumption. But when I put something on Facebook my assumption had been that I was sharing it just with the public I created and control there. That public is private.
This notion of private publics is one I don't recall encountering before, and I quite like it. It nicely fills the gap between a carefully maintained friends list/filters and "This might appear on tomorrow's news". It's just a size smaller than "Everyone in my social circle/s can read this, and I'm not thinking too carefully about the rest of the world".
It's a lot like the idea of Tribes - but specifically related to the dissemination of information about ourselves (and potentially others).
