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Not at all fair, Paula. I’d say 80% of what I do outside of work is private and of my own choosing. And not for any secrecy on my, simply because that’s what I choose to do and we’ve built up over a long time a series of norms and behaviours to make that so. Treating it as a game or that’s technology! or what have you got to hide (and the latter two aren’t your arguments) is a way of trivialising the way these controls are taken away and making ourselves to blame.
To give an example, a while back I was talking to an Australian teacher in rural Japan and she was complaining how everything she bought at the supermarket became public discussion in the town she was in. In one sense she was in a public space and chose to shop at that supermarket so it was her problem. But in a proper sense what had been transgressed was her reasonable expectations of privacy and her actions in a commercial sphere. She had every right to be pissed off and I think we’ve got every right to be pissed off on the net.
Thanks for the great post, Tama.

I appreciate the effort put in to create an Instagram friendly app for Android, but I note this in the marketplace: “You will not be able to upload photo’s to Instagram from this app as Instagram has not exposed this call from their API.” Not being able to upload pictures makes this not overly useful for me, at least. Also, given the official Instagram Android App is in development and will presumably be free, I’m not sure how wide your market will be for this one as a paid app.

I think it’s fair to say that everything we do is rather public anyway. The architecture has changed, so not only is it public to some extent, information you’ve listed about yourself is going to be easier accessible and harder to control. It’s like a game of hide and seek, where you’ve got your little hiding place. It’s not exactly private, but it takes effort for someone to find you. Now you’re out in an open field with nothing more than a twig to hide behind!

I can imagine everyone doing a bit of back peddling, deletions and removal of posts – even the most trivial things may be misconstrued.