In today’s Quick Hits, we talk about cyberbullying, Google’s college campus problems, and how hard it is to get rid of friends on Facebook.
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Cyberbullying From a Teen’s Perspective
16-year-old Amanda Aziz, a member of the YPulse Youth Advisory Board, gives a teen’s perspective on cyberbullying. Among other things, Amanda touches on the role that media plays in encouraging cyberbullying in schools.
Taking Your Ego Out of Facebook
In an article for CNET’s Social Business blog, Jennifer Leggio discusses the role that ego plays in keeping Facebook users from locking down their profiles. Leggio talks about how she felt guilty about removing hundreds of friends, even though she she didn’t know them, and how her desire for connections got in the way of her instinct for cybersecurity.
From the post: “In retrospect, I’m embarrassed that I let my drive for visibility get in the way of my good common sense. It’s not as if I don’t know better. I could’ve just deleted friends and gone quietly on my way. But again, I know that this is a common struggle with people trying to build their blog presence or their careers. It’s just not worth it, folks. Not with such ambiguous privacy policies, not with so many aggressive scammers an cyber criminals just waiting to fool you into friending them, and not with the future of online privacy being such an unknown entity.”
Exploring The Early Days of Facebook
TechCrunch has two excerpts from David Kirkpatrick’s new book, The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. The excerpts, which explore Facebook’s origins, offer a deep look into the lives of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s other founders during the company’s early years.
Privacy problems during the launch of Google Buzz, in addition to other security issues, have derailed Google’s plans to offer enterprise-level applications to major universities. According to a report in Information Week, the University of California at Davis canceled plans to use Gmail as the official e-mail service for the university. UC Davis’ decision comes after Yale University also nixed plans for using Google Apps on campus.
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