Privacy Problems Part 2

In my last blog I talked about privacy on the internet and how social networks and other kinds of web-based applications allow their users to effectively hide who they are. I asked whether the fact that we construct our identities online and so shouldn’t be concerned about privacy issues wasn’t too simplistic a conclusion.

Well, this was all brought on by Facebook’s new privacy settings which essentially seem to be encouraging us all to share far more information than we would ordinarily. I won’t go into the details of the privacy changes, as Electronic Frontier Foundation covers all the changes.

Twitter in the marketplace

In an earlier blog post I talked about how business are not taking advantage of social media platforms for marketing their products and services. Twitter has recently announced that it is building a new campaign for advertising on Twitter.

There are pros and cons to the new Promoted Tweets monetisation scheme.