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When the Most Personal Secrets Get Outed on Facebook
Wall Street Journal ^ | October 12, 2012 | Geoffrey A. Fowler

Posted on 10/13/2012 8:11:08 AM PDT by billorites

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No way their dad and I would abandon my sons even if they thought they were homos. No way would I accept the lifestyle as who they are, either. I know who they are even if, God forbid, they took a walk on the wild side. It would be rocky. But we are all very tight and adore each other.


61 posted on 10/13/2012 2:12:55 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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24 posted on Sat Oct 13 2012 10:40:29 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by Future Snake Eater: “Facebook is a communication tool.”

Agreed.

Much like a telephone or TV or the printing press, Facebook makes it easier to communicate, and once people communicate, things get found out that might not have been found out in the past.

I fail to see how openness is a problem for those who have sense to engage their brains before acting.

For those who don't... well... they have bigger problems than Facebook. Facebook just makes their stupidity easier to detect.

29 posted on Sat Oct 13 2012 10:47:07 GMT-0500 (Central Daylight Time) by socal_parrot: "In the book The Facebook Effect it says this in one of the intentions of founder Mark Zuckerberg, for people to live life as an open book with no secrets."

I did not know this. If accurate, it's good.

A good case could be made that Facebook is bad for people who have no sense and good for society as a whole because it enables people who like to research to do work that in the past it took a private detective to do.

That sounds like Zuckerman's view

62 posted on 10/18/2012 8:31:03 PM PDT by darrellmaurina
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Posting secrets on Facebook = not optimal


63 posted on 10/18/2012 8:33:56 PM PDT by kevao (Is your ocean any lower than it was four years ago?)
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