Hard News: The Internet is for ... Privacy?
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Something might get viewed a million times in 24 hours if it's interesting enough for people to email and facebook it around. That's a hell of a lot of non-privacy.
You only need to look at what happened with Kate's party over the weekend to see the differences in scale at work here.
Full background here.
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I'm not used to being myself on line, much preferring pseudonymity, but enough about me :)
What about this guy ? Almost 5.5 million hits and counting...like WTF ?
...apparently he's polarised the dubstep world with his halfstep wobbles over existing tunes and calling them remixes. They're a bit shit if you ask me.
And yup, that's is Mt Eden NZ he's repping.
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But new technology does make things possible/easy that previously were not.
I was talking to someone about my age recently about how glad we were that Facebook, Twitter and ubiquitous digital cameras weren't around when we were at varsity, because it would have been completely disastrous.
Looking at the same group through time, the permanent visual record of a KAOS party has gone from this to this, which is kind of scary. See how easy it is to be in the background of one of those photos when there are so many? The only way to maintain Tom's attitude would be to just not turn up to parties. (But then, I do also wander around naked with the curtains open sometimes. If they happen to be open and I happen to be naked.)
Sometimes we have rooms that are off-limits to cameras (like at the Perversion Party), you can always ask for a photo to be removed or, as I've done, never see the light of day. But we found at the reunion we had in January that we had so many photos that people weren't comfortable with. If someone decided to go feral, it could be unfortunate. And people aren't going to hang around to find out what the context of an image or statement is.
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Shades of that Italo Calvino short story about the telephone network comming alive and connecting people based on what they say in private conversations.
I seem to have missed that one. Any chance that you recall the title, or what collection it's from?
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Something might get viewed a million times in 24 hours if it's interesting enough for people to email and facebook it around. That's a hell of a lot of non-privacy.
Yes, I distinctly remember a chain email in the late 90s which consisted of some girl saying that she liked the taste of her boyfriend's jizz. Her real name was in this email, and it had reached millions of people within one day. If her workplace didn't all ending up knowing, it would have been amazing.
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I seem to have missed that one. Any chance that you recall the title, or what collection it's from?
No, I can't, and it's been bugging me all day that I can't. I read it in an European Studies paper at Vic Uni in 1995, along with short stories by Primo Levi and Umberto Eco, and I'm wondering if I can't remember because one of those two wrote it instead. It was definitely written in a style I associate more closely with Calvino though.
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Actually, it was Primo Levi, which is why I was so hopelessly confused.
The short story is called "For A Good Purpose" and according to this blog post it's available in English versions of Six Days and Other Tales.
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Thanks Andre, much appreciated.
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Yes, I distinctly remember a chain email in the late 90s which consisted of some girl saying that she liked the taste of her boyfriend's jizz. Her real name was in this email, and it had reached millions of people within one day. If her workplace didn't all ending up knowing, it would have been amazing.
Clare Swires as I recall - a workmate was in a band that wrote a song about it.
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Ah yes. This article suggests no lessons had been learned a year later. Scary part is it could have even been a hoax. But there is no doubt that the two people mentioned were real people who got into real trouble.
This would never have happened with snail mail.
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This article suggests no lessons had been learned a year later.
Here's Snopes: http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/swire.asp
Two more, also apparently true:
http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/chung.asp
http://www.snopes.com/risque/tattled/luxton.asp
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