Let me send my Social Security Number to Facebook too

Cliff Sterns once said " At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible." However, John D. Sutter recently wrote an article about the 'real-time sharing updates on Facbook". It is an app that will post all the music you listen to, the games you play, and the movies you watch so long as they are connected to your facebook account. I think this app is a silly, counter-productive.

First of all, I think this app is silly. The goal of facebook is "to get people to share more and more information about themselves." The movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the games we play do not, by any means, define who we are. This app shares what we have done. They do not explain our motives, our thoughts on the media, or how we feel.




Furthermore, "Why do you share a story, video, or photo? Because you want your friends to see it." If everything you did was posted, and documented nothing would be special anymore.

I think this app is counter-productive. If this app is presented in such a way, that soemone will be able to better know someone else, and they spend hours reading about their online-history sitting idle at their computer, they would have wasted the time reading someone's facebook, when they could have been having lunch with them.

Additionally, I think many people would take advantage of this to mock the system, and their 'friends.' How many times a week do you see so and so "has really bad diareah" because someone hacked someone elses facebook. This app could take that to an entirely different level. What if you saw so and so, your childs baby sitter, was watching something inappropriate last friday 7:45pm.... when they were with YOUR child. A little prank might become a lost job.

The app is silly, and counter-productive. Do you really care about every single song your fellow employee listens to, or are you just so concedid that you want them to care about every song you listend to?

Article link: http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/23/tech/social-media/facebook-real-time/index.html?hpt=hp_bn6">