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Miss New Jersey, Amy Polumbo, spoke to freshmen at Wagner College about the dangers of putting too much personal information on the Internet. Many students tend to post private information and pictures on their MySpace and Facebook pages, then express shock when somebody finds them online. -
1voteSophos created a profile for a fake Facebook user named Freddi Staur (that’s “ID Fraudster,” anagrammed) and sent friend requests to 200 other randomly chosen Facebookers. In the end, 87 people made Freddi a friend, and nearly all of them shared some personal information — like their e-mail addresses or dates of birth — with the stranger.
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1voteThis year, due to the opening up of FB, calls from parents complaining about their children's future roommates are coming all too frequently. In many instances, parents want their children separated from roommates whose profiles show them drinking or partying. However, according to one housing official, parents’ chief concerns are potential roommates’ race, religion, and sexual orientation.
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1voteBlogging offers then the type of solution to the private/public dichotomy that Arendt dreads. It does not release the passion of private life into the public, but deprives the private of its fascination and invests the public with a continuous repetition of identical personal experiences.
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