Creepy.

The world we live in today is seriously creepy. I know it’s been hammered to death that sites like Facebook and twitter have privacy issues that need addressing but I feel like I need to get my little rant off my chest. At a glance, Facebook doesn’t seem like it is as bad as sites like twitter, because you’re not always talking about what you’re doing right then and there all the time, whereas twitter sees people telling the world where they’re having lunch, almost inviting a stalker to come find them. Facebook, though, does have its own issues, one of which I read on www.stuff.co.nz is the fact that they keep ‘deleted’ photos from your account for up to 30 months after you think you have erased them. The question that immediately springs to mind is ‘what else can they be keeping?’ e.g. private mail messages. They say they are trying to sort it out now and shorten the time it is kept on the server but how will we know that in that time someone hasn't taken or saved that picture? Creepy.

Twitter I just don’t understand. People have tried to get me onto it but I’m a little tentative at this stage. The way I look at it, it just seems like people post what they’re doing right there and then. Obviously there is A LOT more to it than that but that is the general feeling I get especially when the people that have access to your tweets are known as ‘followers’. People complain about their privacy issues all the time but sometimes you just have to be more careful to stop yourself from putting certain things out there. Imagine if an angry ex got onto your page and could find out where and when you’re doing something and decided to make your life a living hell. Or someone just stalked you and followed you wherever you went. Creepy.