MrsSpringsteen
Blue Crack Addict
Oversharenting, that's what the word is
I guess I just don't get why people feel the need to post anything like that online. Even if it's just innocent play of your kids. I think they've even coined a term for it, for parents who overshare their kids' lives online. Can't remember the word. I think that is poor parenting, what could happen to that kind of photo? Even if it is "private"-what actually is? Putting your own need to overshare, your own narcissism, whatever-above your child's privacy and safety.
KOMOnews.com
SEATTLE -- A local mom is outraged after getting temporarily banned from Facebook over a photo she says is completely innocent.
The photo in question shows Lauren Ferrari's 5-year-old daughter pretending to nurse her 2-year-old sister.
Facebook says it violates the company's community standards, but Ferrari disagrees.
"It's not sexual and they were just pretending," she said. "What's obscene about breastfeeding?"
Ferrari didn't think much of it when she uploaded the photo of her two daughters for all her Facebook friends to see.
"When I posted it I said, 'She says she's nursing her baby,'" Ferrari said. "She didn't say, 'Mommy look, she's kissing my boobie.'"
Less than 24-hours later, the image was gone, with message from Facebook claiming Ferrari violated the site's policies.
"They did not say it was child pornography," she said. "They were not clear, they were really vague."
Stefanie Thomas of the Seattle Police Department's Internet Crimes Against Children agrees the photo isn't child porn, but she said it's poor parenting on Ferrari's part. She points to the fact that there's no control over who sees the photo and whose hands it ends up in.
"There's no real way of actually getting wherever that image ends up down off the Internet. So that's something that this family, that these girls, are going to have to ultimately deal with," Thomas said.
After the photo was taken down, Ferrari learned she'd been banned from Facebook for seven days.
"I just wish someone would have actually talked to me and asked a question or something. I just felt it was very harsh," she said.
An official from Facebook said the company doesn't comment on its policies.
Following a 2-1 defeat by the South Korean soccer team on Sunday, Morganella turned to Twitter to air his frustrations. He wrote, "Je fonsde out les coreen allez sout vous lebru. Ahahahhahahaah deban zotre." The Next Web translates this as, "I f*** all Koreans, go all burn yourselves. Ahahahaha bunch of 'tards."
“With so many Africans (immigrants) in Greece, the West Nile (infected) mosquitoes at least eat home-made food.”
Oh hell no, I'd refuse. You expect them to look at it, fine I have nothing to hide. You expect, especially government jobs that they will do an extensive background check, fine, but actually asking for login info? Absolutely not.
The Obama administration has overseen a sharp increase in the number of people subjected to warrantless electronic surveillance of their telephone, email and Facebook accounts by federal law enforcement agencies, new documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union on Friday revealed. The documents, released by the ACLU after a months-long legal battle with the Department of Justice, show that in the last two years, more people were spied on by the government than in the preceding decade. The documents do not include information on most terrorism investigations and requests from state and local law enforcers. Nor do they include surveillance by federal agencies outside Justice Department purview, like the Secret Service.
Department of Justice agencies obtained 37,616 court orders for information about phone calls in 2011, according to the documents. That's an increase of 47 percent from the 25,535 orders obtained by the government in 2009. Including Internet and email information requests, more than 40,000 people were targeted in 2011.
Not so today. From the feds to local Mayberry cops, all that law enforcers needs in order to obtain an order allowing surveillance to file a procedural request with a judge certifying that the information will be used in conjunction with a criminal investigation. With contemporary technology, telecommunications providers can comply with those orders at the push of a button.
"Why are we seeing such a surge? We don't really know," said Soghoian. "It may be that there's more and more FBI and DEA offices that are discovering the utility of these tools or using them more frequently."
"Maybe the social networking sites and email providers just didn't provide this information in the past, but now they do -- but what is clear is that the numbers are growing at an alarming rate."
PhilsFan said:Maybe my biggest disappointment with Obama has been the fact that he has not rolled back the Patriot Act and similarly invasive executive powers that Bush put in place.
Why are we so nasty to each other online? Whether on Facebook, Twitter, message boards or websites, we say things to each other that we would never say face to face. Shouldn't we know better by now?
Anonymity is a powerful force. Hiding behind a fake screen name makes us feel invincible, as well as invisible. Never mind that, on many websites, we're not as anonymous as we think—and we're not anonymous at all on Facebook. Even when we reveal our real identities, we still misbehave.
According to soon-to-be-published research from professors at Columbia University and the University of Pittsburgh, browsing Facebook lowers our self control. The effect is most pronounced with people whose Facebook networks were made up of close friends, the researchers say.
Most of us present an enhanced image of ourselves on Facebook. This positive image—and the encouragement we get, in the form of "likes"—boosts our self-esteem. And when we have an inflated sense of self, we tend to exhibit poor self-control.
Think of it as a licensing effect: You feel good about yourself so you feel a sense of entitlement," says Keith Wilcox, assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School and co-author of the study. "And you want to protect that enhanced view, which might be why people are lashing out so strongly at others who don't share their opinions." These types of behavior—poor self control, inflated sense of self—"are often displayed by people impaired by alcohol," he adds.
Watch this, Mrs Springsteen, Pearl, Angela, et al. It will make you feel much better.
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