Tuesday, 13 May 2008
Ethical Boundaries of Social Networking Sites
« JavaOne 2008: Sun SPOT Hands-on Lab | Main | JavaOne 2008: Day Three »Sure, we all like to be part of the next big thing. Aren't we all very keen to jump on the social networking bandwagon? Don't we all love toying with new technology? And nobody wants to be left behind. Because it's cool, it's clever. It makes us look good!
Unfortunately, technology comes with a great responsibility, too. Any system designed to automate our comfort in support of our well being, is bound to lull us into a false sense of safety.
You'll know once you too stumble across this:
It is nothing less than nefarious to see advertising of this kind on a social networking site, not named here. In the middle of the worst credit crisis recorded in human history, one might assume there is no place for such belligerent greed. As if there would be a place for that whatsoever, at all.
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