by LwEEs
Social Media Bill of Rights
September 5, 2007 in Technology by LwEEs
As I was reading a post from Robert Scoble at www.scobleizer.com about bill of rights for participants in the social web, I realize that my affinity for the entire social environment, social networking, and social understanding idea is very strong. I didn’t plan this, most of our positions about things like religion and politics get stronger in us as we grow and have a better understanding of the reality of life. Our social environment is part of it, the way I understand the terminology of social life on the web has mature enough for me to talk about it.
The bill of rights for the participants in the social web initiated with a post on the www.opensocialweb.org blog on Sept 5, 2007, several important people contributed to it. People like Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Michael Arrington, and the only one I recognize on the list, Robert Scoble. So far, they outline three items on this bill of rights that they expect to have it evolve; doing my part, I will go into detail on these items and include my own personal opinion on each one of them. Additional, I will try to come up with one more thing that, hopefully, we will all agree to and may be added to the bill.
The first item on the bill is the Ownership of your own personal information; personal information on the web without proper control is a dangerous practice. Which is why I separate my personal social sites from those who are just links to my website, making sure that only the people I trust gets access to my personal information. I make a distinction between social sites where my family and close friends have access to and those social sites that only hold a presence of who I am and what is my blog about.
