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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 26th, 2006 at 6:31 pm
Here my question: if you offer a browser with tabs, why would you not give users the possibility to open something in a new tab??? Or did I download the wrong version? An almost unbelievable usability blunder, or an incredible stupidity from my side :-)
November 1st, 2006 at 7:05 am
When I’ve used IE7 (admittedly not installed on my primary machine yet), it’s had the tab bar open at all times–even if only one tab is open. It’s as if they’re screaming “LOOKY TABS!” Despite that, it did take a minute or two to figure out that clicking the ugly stub next to the tab launches a new one–haven’t checked to see if they’ve copied my favorite Firefox feature of middle-mouse-button clicking a link to open it in a new tab. Anyhow, IE7′s biggest usability blunder I think will prove to be the elimination of the “File Edit View Fav…” menu bar across the top and instead dispersing those functions in hidden corners and pop-outs all over the UI. I sure hope they don’t plan on doing that to the Office suite.
I’m using Firefox 2.0 right now and so far no complaints. The built in spell checker is very slick.