Ever heard of 'White-walling"?
- Andrew Kinnear
- Nov 12, 2010
- 2 min read
Just read an interesting article about Facebook Privacy explaining two new ways that users are controlling their privacy, visibility and accessibility on the world's largest social network. Here's how I understand it:
is where you delete absolutely everything that you post, as soon as you're content that it's been seen by the right people or available long enough. You're not restricting the posting of the content, just the timing for which it appears.
I think this is interesting, because rather than restrict the content you post (and what gets posted to your wall by friends) only to certain people, using lists and the privacy settings-- you simply treat the site like a white board. Write whatever you want, but I'm going to take down everything I don't like, and I'm even going to remove the things that
so that they don't bite me in the behind later in life.
The 'Wall' product on facebook started like that and gave the impression that this was a place you could share, etc, but once it's off the page, people forget that the content is still accessible in different ways around the site. (e.g. photos posted to the wall appear in albums, videos in the videos section, notes in the notes section---) People often forget that the white-board idea is a fallacy, and it's really just an entry-point into a content archive. "White-walling" deletes the content itself (or let's it live only for a short time) to not allow the propagation of the content into other parts of the site, and thus into the view of the unknown creeper.
sounds like a game or an app, but it's how these privacy-aware users are terming a new way to enter and exit the site. If I'm not logged in to Facebook, you can still write on my wall, tag me in photos, etc. However if you're no longer a
of Facebook, none of those options are available to your friends. Super-Logoff is actually a
of the account while you're not
. When you deactivate your account, everything stays the same, except that nobody can find you, tag you, view your profile, or interact with you. You don't get notifications, request, anything. Radio silence. THEN-- when you want to play again, you simply log in (Facebook allows you to log in even though you've deactivated your account) and all is fine. While online, your friends can find you, tag you in photos, etc-- but now you are there
to un-tag, delete and whatnot as necessary.
Imagine using the Super-logoff technique along with a white-wall technique? That's Facebook on
.
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