Author: Jaf

Law, libraries, books, crafts, and general geekery.

Facebook..for EVER!

I knew it was a bad idea signing up to that thing! 🙂

I did know about not being able to delete your account, but it’s one of those things, you only want to be able to do it in concept, you want the option, but might well never use it.

I know I wouldn’t actually bother deleting my MySpace, Bebo or Facebook accounts, mainly because I occasionally get contact from people through them, there’s nothing on them that’s ‘dodgy’, and they’re an amusing way to while away some time sometimes (but would people puhlease stop trying to turn me into a vampire on Facebook?!!?).

But what about those people who signed up with their ‘proper’ name, then reconsidered their membership later? I know of people who’ve adopted a child, and don’t want the childs ‘interesting’ family to be able to find them after…how do they get themselves off it? Or the people who’ve unfortunately become the object of some over-attentive online friends obsession?

I assume Facebook will sort this issue out pretty fast, they seem to be very good at being responsive when problems are pointed out. In fact, maybe the peeps in charge of Facebook should have been running HMRC?

la-la-la-la…

For various reasons, including the library move, a pile up of work, and personal issues, mean I’ve not had a chance to blog lately.

Hopefully over the next few days I’ll get time to write up the course I went on on Friday the 9th November, “Practical Uses for Web 2.0 in the Library Environment” with Phil Bradley…until then, back to the huge cataloguing pile, the current awareness backlog, and wondering why the partner at the desk next to me seems to have brought a windsurfing sail into work….

Blogger security

Reading this article referred to by James Mullan, I can see a lot of sense in it. Although I deliberately don’t blog anything provocative, and I’ve not made great attempts to hide my identity, I feel I’m reasonably anonymous, unless I choose to give away more information / contact others.

But meeting with a colleague from another sector last week, she told me how she’d been looking for a quote about Facebook for a presentation, and found a post on a blog which seemed to say what she wanted…then she saw the name of the blog, read the profile…and a few things added up to confirm that the blogger was me. Now, that’s not a problem, I know her, she knows me, and I’m happy enough to be identified as the author of this blog (what my employers view on that may be is unknown, as yet!), but it just shows what a small world it really is…especially in the legal profession in Scotland! If I’m identifiable professionally, what about personally?

In my personal blog I’d though I was very careful about giving away personal information…but thinking about it now, I realise you can discover the first name of my partner, our cats, what city we live in, what area of that city, where my parents live / where I am from….actually, you know, I think I might be making that an invite-only blog VERY soon! One stalker in a lifetime was more than enough for me, thank you very much!