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Stalking is not an information organization issue. It’s a human issue.
Facebook recently released a Friendship Pages feature that allows you to view the activity between you and a friend or two mutual friends. The information has always been public to you. Now you just have a more powerful filtering tool than manually combing over someone’s Facebook history. Most people are saying this is a stalky feature. I’m cool with it. You can’t discount proper use because of improper use. People also freaked out when the News Feed was released. In fact, I reported on the reaction of the News Feed in 2006. There was justified outrage for the lake of basic privacy controls, but this feature essentially changed how information (mostly already available to others) was organized. Funny how the act of organization makes something creepy. An analog example: A friend flips through your wedding album that you leave on the coffee table for guests. You’ve allowed certain people access by placing it in a traditional place of sharing. If the friend takes out all the pictures of your spouse and lays them in rows on the coffee table… it just got creepy. The solution isn’t to hot gule the pictures to the album so the feature of sorting no longer exists. Here are some possible solutions: Better filters for public information is almost always a good thing. It only highlights the importance of knowing what happens when you publish content somewhere. If something is public to some kind of network, it can be found. Stalking is not an information organization issue. It’s a human issue. We can’t fight stalking by rearranging information. Takeaways:
