With Facebook suicides and the famous quitting Twitter, is oversharing already taking a toll? FYI asks if secrecy is back on the wanted list of those who once craved virtual contact
With Facebook suicides and the famous quitting Twitter, is oversharing already taking a toll? FYI asks if secrecy is back on the wanted list of those who once craved virtual contact
Our parents told us that the first thing you do in the morning is brush your teeth. But had they known that Facebook would come out with a super-solid game called Farmville and Twitter would help us follow our favourite stars, they would have trained us to start our day by harvesting strawberries, updating our status messages, following Sonam Kapoor on Twitter and checking our list of recent visitors on Orkut. Social networking sites do their best to get Gen Y hooked on but what they never tell their users is that more and more people are getting concerned about content sharing and privacy protocols.
The famous Twitter-quitters
American singer, songwriter and actress Miley Cyrus who was once a regular Tweeter in an interview with B96 Chicago said " So great (quitting Twitter), I think everyone should delete their Twitter, I think Twitter should just be banned from the entire universe."
Summer Glau, the Terminator actress.u00a0u00a0
American filmmaker Seth MacFarlane's never returned after his first post on Twitter.
Filmmaker Judd Apatow. One of his posts meant, "In order to achieve success, you can't f**k around on a site like Twitter all day"
Larry David "What the hell is this thing? I'm supposed to tell you what I'm doing? Why would I tell you what I'm doing? What are you doing?"
Expert Talk
Abhinav Karnwal, Product-marketing manager,
APEC, Trend Micro
One of the main reasons why people quit networking portals or become inactive is because of identity theft. There have been cases where pictures from a user's profile were used to create similar but fake profile on other such portals just to befriend the primary user's friends. Other fears among users is that of spammers who often post links to malicious sites on your wall, which infect your and your friends' computers.
Vox Pop
Rajan Kapoor
Businessman
After I realised that Orkut is teeming with more people than it should, I deactivated my account. Then I shifted to Twitter and kept my account reasonably under wraps but quit it too as I thought it offered no privacy.u00a0
Chavi Bohra
Social activist
I'm now bored of receiving comments from strangers and my wall appears like a jam-packed session. So I've decided to go dormant for sometime.
Harmeet Singh
Fashion photographer
I don't see a reason to be on a social networking website. I have other modes to connect like mobile phones, email and coffee. Plus, I don't even have time that a website like Facebook expects from you.
To the rescue
An upcoming portal called www.twitterquitter.com claims to help people who are addicted to twitter.
Profile Tips
In case you decide to stay on the social networking sites, keep these tips in mind to maintain your privacy
>>u00a0Don't share your last name, pin code and phone numbers, which are usually displayed on your profile.u00a0
>> To maintain anonymity, create a profile that doesn't resemble your real name.u00a0u00a0u00a0
>> Your private album can become public if a friend of yours tags it, so post pics carefully. Plus, they can be morphed in to porn content.u00a0u00a0u00a0
>> Beware of people who are too inquisitive about your personal details or meet you personally.
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