The Social Network.

I’m in Scarsdale again for the weekend to see Liz and her toddler, Hank. Just got back from seeing The Social Network for the second time–still gripping, still frustrating. Say what you will about the film, it’s successfully reopened an already-controversial dialogue about the future of social networking sites like facebook.

Tim Wu at Foreign Policy penned an interesting piece about how Facebook will deal with lawsuits and the like as it becomes increasingly global. Facebook’s privacy policies have come under fire recently due to third-party applications sharing personal data.

Similarly (though a tad unrelated), Daily Beast’s Thomas E. Weber details an experiment he performed in which he attempts to crack Facebook’s algorithm for what keeps users present or invisible on others’ mini-feeds. The outcomes are weird.

I’m not worried about any security breach, nor am I particularly worried about Facebook getting shut down. I think that it’s important to open up the conversation about privacy now that we’re on the frontier of internet networking.

(By the way, if you did see the film and are interested in hearing about what’s true and what’s fiction, head on over to read this article at the Daily Beast).

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