{"id":238,"date":"2011-02-17T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-17T13:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/?p=238"},"modified":"2018-09-04T13:21:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T13:21:51","slug":"one-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lencho\/one-world\/","title":{"rendered":"One World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook Rule 1: If you are ever surprised at your level of exposure it is because you are overexposed.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s say you wish use FB with close friends and with more distant relationships,\u00a0 perhaps with some individuals you\u2019ve never met. You fill out all the fields in FB profile (for the most social experience with your close friends), and you then create a group called \u201cFriends I\u2019ve never met\u201d and you customize your privacy settings, excluding this group from every single one of the sharing categories.<\/p>\n

What information do you share with this sealed off group, apart from your specific interactions with them in their group? . . . .<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s consider the geography of FB \u201cfriends\u201d<\/p>\n

In the\u00a0 pre-packaged (default) world of FB, there are three degrees of overlap: there\u2019s \u201ceverybody,\u201d (they have access to your posts, photos, status, biography, favorite quotations, family and relationships),\u00a0 \u201cfriends of friends,\u201d (in addition to what everyone has access to, this group also sees your religious and political declarations, and photos that you are tagged in.\u00a0 Finally, the closest relationship is that of \u201cfriend\u201d (in addition to the preceding privileges, they have access to your contact info and can post on your wall.\u00a0 They can also check you into places).<\/p>\n

See the diagrams below, where the ring of access increasingly thickens as the friends become increasingly central.<\/p>\n

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Facebook gives you the option to move all of the information from the intermediate and outer layer into the center, restricting the sharing of any information with no others but friends.<\/p>\n

Envision compressing the three layers of information in the concentric circle above into a the smallest circle demarcating \u201cfriends only:\u201d<\/p>\n

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And within this core group you can build lists to selectively exclude friends from any of the information listed above, which I represent below by bleaching out (selectively removing) information for some of my friends:<\/p>\n

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If you do not wish to have your inner circle privy to all your communication with outer layers of friends, you must construct \u201cgroups.\u201d But you can close these groups off to the rest of your information only so far.\u00a0 Let\u2019s say you wish to have contact with a group without sharing your \u201ccore\u201d information.\u00a0 You can create a group, and then go back and set all of your privacy settings so that this group is excluded from any sharing. . . .<\/p>\n

What you will discover is that the sharing settings on the FB privacy page do not address all of the categories of information that are shared.\u00a0 Certain categories of information that you provide are rigidly globalized and shared with all of your friends, regardless of\u00a0 your customized exclusions.<\/p>\n

Specifically, any of your friends that you place in such a sequestered group will still be able to view any of the following information you share with your closest friends: work and education history, inspirational people, sports, books, movie, and television interests, hometown, and current residence (!)<\/p>\n

So you see that FB\u2019s \u201cone world\u201d of connectivity is just that.\u00a0 It is possible to have circles within circles of contacts, but it is not possible to have two groups of friends that do not overlap, and the interconnectivity is quite robust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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