Comments on: When Facebook Bites

By: Graham

Graham — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:35:45 +0000

The “out there forever” aspect is a concern.

Even if what we write today seems harmless right now, we can’t be sure that 5 or 10 years down the track it won’t be misused or misinterpreted in ways we can’t imagine, in situations we can’t foresee, by people we haven’t yet met.

I don’t want to be paranoid, but too much discretion is probably safer than too little when it comes to saying things that can never be fully retracted.

By: David Cook

David Cook — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:19:54 +0000

Best advice I’ve seen – from my company’s internal training – is to assume anything you email or post online will end up on the front page of tomorrow’s newspaper – or one a year from now. If you’re OK with that happneing, fire away. If not, you probably should pick up the phone.

Come to think of it, once newspapers are gone, we might need to rethink that advice. Instead, imagine it’s on the front page of Facebook.

Oh, wait, hang on, that’s already happening…

Maybe I should stop advising now. This post will be around for a while.

By: Flea

Flea — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 03:21:03 +0000

Now that you mention it, that is scary to think.

BTW, all the best for the bike ride coming up, I wish I could join in, it sounds like great fun, in the mean time we plan a cycle either to or from Freo on Sunday morning.

Wishing you all strong legs, gentle breezes and cool days!

And thank you for riding for such a good cause.

By: Rodney Olsen

Rodney Olsen — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 13:34:40 +0000

Stuff online is constantly being cached and archived.

If I delete a post from my blog it may have already gone to my RSS feed and then transferred to other blogging services over which I have no control. Once it’s out there, it’s out there for good.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:08:04 +0000

What did you mean by