Is Facebook Keeping Too Much of Your Information?
There is a good article in Financial times that looks at the amount of data that is being kept by Facebook and other social media properties. The article also makes many references to the Open Social ID, which is a very good idea from our perspective. It would be nice to be able to enter our profile information one time and then be able to go to any social media property that we would like and not have to reinput new information.
But this also brings up a good question about the amount of privacy that is kept when you use services such as Open Social ID. All of your data can be accessed once you sign up for any social media property. This could include some very private information such as birthdate, city, and family names.
I guess 2008 will be the year where this type of service either is welcomed into the masses or meets obstacles that stop it from flourishing. According to the article, Jeremiah Owyang, an analyst at Forrester Research says “This is the trend of 2008,”, so I guess we will have to wait and see what happens.
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