May 24th, 2010 
joel The 80/20 rule came into play in last week’s P&T poll.
We asked readers if GoErie.com should once again allow comments on their articles. 80% of respondents said yes and over half of all respondents said that they would participate responsibly. That’s good considering that the paper would know who you were through a registration process. BTW, the folks at GoErie tell me that the comments issue is one of several elements to the website that are in process of review and upgrade. More to come later.
Big news last week is the backlash by users of Facebook over personal privacy concerns. It seems that the developers of the hugely-popular social network are fighting amongst themselves over the balance of privacy and freedom of expression and community.
Where do you come down?
On a scale from 1 to 5, how concerned are you about your privacy on Facebook?
- 4: I’m always watching what I post and check my privacy settings often, but will stay on Facebook (26%, 11 Votes)
- 2: I'm not worried about it, as long as I take the normal precautions (24%, 10 Votes)
- N/A: I don't Facebook (24%, 10 Votes)
- 5: Facebook can’t be trusted with protecting my privacy and I’m considering dropping out of the network (21%, 9 Votes)
- 1: Not at all concerned; I'm an open book. (2%, 1 Votes)
- 3: I’m ambivalent either way (3%, 1 Votes)
Total Voters: 42
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I always thought that the terms “personal privacy” and “social networking site” were mutually exclusive. People need to understand that ANYTHING you post ANYWHERE on the Internet is public fodder. So I don’t understand the Facebook outcry. And I continue to be amazed at what I see some people post on Facebook…even in spite of the lack of anonymity.