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Captions Scrawled on Hand Dryer
(1) Push Button
(2) Release Bacon
(3) Enjoy Bacon
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- Electronic Culture (15)
- Feature: Books (5)
- Feature: Market Moment (7)
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Gossip, Privacy, and the Internet
There is an argument made against privacy that says someone who isn’t engaged in criminal behavior has nothing to hide. This method of thinking allowed the US government to slowly sap away our civil liberties in the wake of the 9/11 attacks–many have just accepted that trading privacy for security is acceptable and used the “nothing to hide” argument to rationalize what was, essentially, a decision based on fear. However, limiting the government’s ability to intrude in our private lives is easy compared with attempting to control how personal information spreads on the internet via gossip. Rather than spies or wiretaps, gossip is often gathered by those we trust and spread online by people who don’t understand or appreciate the potential for the damage it can do. In reality, privacy is about much more than concealing wrongdoing.
Teens, Privacy, and ‘Cyberbullying’ by the Numbers
Internet-based abuse (‘cyberbullying’) and privacy / relationship issues are still massively misunderstood. The complexities of online sociality are probably the biggest ‘generational divide’ between modern teens and adults. To help put it in perspective a bit, here are some numbers…
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October 14th, 2006 at 6:16 am
One of my earliest forays into thinking about words and meaning was in middle school when I found myself trying to read ALL of the instructions and information on a hand dryer before the damn thing turned off! It became an obsession that I could indulge almost anywhere. That was back in the 1970’s when consumers weren’t important.
Just this past week my university installed automatic towel dispensers in our restrooms. The instructions are a nice icon of a hand waving at me. I’ll up load a shot of it to Flickr on Monday. I get smile each time I see the waving hand. It is so much nicer than 250 words on a plate of metal.
(Too bad they installed it inches from the sink and at shoulder height. Each time I lean in to the faucet I get a new feed of paper. Or maybe that was intentional? I do save a second or two not having to wave at a machine hanging on the wall.)
October 17th, 2006 at 6:45 am
This post made my bathroom breaks during the SAT 5,000 times more amusing. Thank you, Morgan–I am going to attribute at least 10 points on my composite score to your keen insight. Assuming it goes up.
November 5th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Having received aforementioned scores–thanks. Definitely thanks.
September 28th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Hey! I’ve seen this one! I was actually doing an image search for that graphic so I could describe it to someone. I forget exactly where it was, I think in some truck stop between GA and either FL or SC.