In a post describing some teens’ use of Twitter and Facebook (Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody; some teens are using private Twitter accounts for communication with friends because Twitter is too public), danah boyd poses the following question: My guess is that if Twitter does take off among teens and Dylan’s friends feel [...]
Tagged facebook, identity, privacy, twitterFor one of our Networked Cities projects, we were asked to explore urban markup. While looking at existing projects, my teammate David Hutchful and I got the feeling that tagging spaces is a pretty crowded space. Tagging or otherwise marking people with the intent of learning more about them or feeling more connected to them [...]
Tagged design, identity, place, siAs an ischool student, I like to see what folks at other ischools are thinking about, and I had experimented some with claimid in the fall. In the developers’ own words, One of the greatest things about having a claimID page is that you can easily provide people searching for you with a real picture [...]
Tagged identity, social softwareSam Anderson’s article “Judging Your Friends by their Netflix Queue” made it onto a few blogs and the like over the past week, often with comments along the lines of “This article is totally true.” Anderson describes his initial reaction: When I first started looking at my friends’ Netflix lists, it felt a little creepy. [...]
Tagged collections, identity, social software