Exploring Identity Through Social Networking – Aestetix@gmail,twitter,etc:
Social networking and the fact that Google banned his account. Definitions of identity etc. Is identity what you think of yourself or what others think of you? Identity as a virtual term or a term from the outside in. Aspects of something generate an identity. Giving something a label or identity changes who they are.
Generally people really have more then one identity and more then one identity type. Fake names giving power to a group or a person. A man that made up a name and generated an identity around it (Emperor Norton I). Nicholas Bourbaki, Voltaire, Mark Twain.
Social networking repeating a mistake. Correction not repeated…he cant control it, they do not care. Fake persona generated in the modern day. Valid or invalid if the information is true? Identities created by just titles. President, etc…you think they are important or not important.
Social networks are: Leaders and followers. Changing meaning of word friend. Advertising preys on this. Creating false identities that one can relate to. Past 150 people it is hard to keep track of all your friends. Noisebridge too hard to track and now everything is subgroups. Same with the ‘man’ and the ‘system’, etc.
On-line identity and the factors that really identify it and create it. How transparent really should an identity be?
Privacy promoting tech: Tor, Selective Logging, Privacy and sharing settings on websites, remailers. (http://mixmaster.sourceforge.net/). Sockpuppets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sockpuppet_%28Internet%29)
Throws some quotes up from facebook guy and 4chan creator. Facebook guy (zucker) does not like privacy, 4chan understands the difference between freedom of expression online and how it calms things in real life.
A summary of social networks and the privacy settings in them work. Facebook, Twitter, Blog platforms, Google Plus, Diaspora.
https://www.eff.org/pages/when-government-comes-knocking-who-has-your-back
Actually was sent a message by Google to confirm his id after he said that his name is his nick. They then suspended his account again later. Other users creating fake names that look real now. Google is demanding sensitive information without policies and security.
Vic Gundotra Web 2.0 and Nick Names. NO NICK NAMES.
Presenter went WAY over.
I need to find that data mining tool. (Maltego?)