Comments on: That's What Twitter Is To Me… http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/01/11/thats-what-twitter-is-to-me/ Jared Stein's archived blog on education, technology, culture, and the web Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:41:56 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jared M. Stein http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/01/11/thats-what-twitter-is-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Jared M. Stein Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:37:00 +0000 http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/01/11/thats-what-twitter-is-to-me/#comment-22 What you say is true, but because we know that anything digital and on the web is in someway innately public/insecure (and, yes, I am aware of this all the time) what I appear to be doing is making a stand on principle rather than on absolute, impeccable practicality. Or I'm simply, as you say, lowering my voice. I do the same thing in a coffee shop. I know the people around me _could_ hear me if they wanted to, but I also understand that most of them won't care to. The same could be said about public Tweets, sure, but my personality says let's declare myself to be semi-private. What you say is true, but because we know that anything digital and on the web is in someway innately public/insecure (and, yes, I am aware of this all the time) what I appear to be doing is making a stand on principle rather than on absolute, impeccable practicality. Or I’m simply, as you say, lowering my voice. I do the same thing in a coffee shop. I know the people around me _could_ hear me if they wanted to, but I also understand that most of them won’t care to. The same could be said about public Tweets, sure, but my personality says let’s declare myself to be semi-private.

]]> By: Chris http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/01/11/thats-what-twitter-is-to-me/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Chris Tue, 15 Jan 2008 03:58:00 +0000 http://flexknowlogy.learningfield.org/2008/01/11/thats-what-twitter-is-to-me/#comment-21 I agree with all of your Twitter uses (and share them). We just have a fundamentally different perspective on what is important in making personal networks grow. You are happy with the growth you see and the contacts you make by limiting your network, I am happier leaving it open, making it more likely that people will come in from the outside. I also want my Twitters to feed into all the tools that are being built on it using the API. It's no different to me than flickr or del.icio.us-- I default to public. If a system doesn't give me a choice and I have to choose one mode for all, I will opt for public. <br/><br/>We both know there is no real privacy. You are choosing to lower your voice but you are still at a public table... security through obscurity is no security at all. I agree with all of your Twitter uses (and share them). We just have a fundamentally different perspective on what is important in making personal networks grow. You are happy with the growth you see and the contacts you make by limiting your network, I am happier leaving it open, making it more likely that people will come in from the outside. I also want my Twitters to feed into all the tools that are being built on it using the API. It’s no different to me than flickr or del.icio.us– I default to public. If a system doesn’t give me a choice and I have to choose one mode for all, I will opt for public.

We both know there is no real privacy. You are choosing to lower your voice but you are still at a public table… security through obscurity is no security at all.

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