WE ARE THE DIGITAL KIDS.
I'm Amanda Mooney, a digital kid and senior social media strategist at Edelman in Chicago. I write for Paper Magazine's Word Up blog with a weekly feature called WWWe Could Be Next and also write for Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word, the Edelman Digital blog and American Shelf Life. You can also get in touch with me via mooney[dot]amanda@gmail.com, find me on Twitter, Facebook, Flickr…or find the ultimate guide to getting in touch with me here.
Over time people also asked us to add networks for companies and regions as well. Today we even have networks for some entire countries, like India and China.
However, as Facebook has grown, some of these regional networks now have millions of members and we’ve concluded that this is no longer the best way for you to control your privacy. Almost 50 percent of all Facebook users are members of regional networks, so this is an important issue for us. If we can build a better system, then more than 100 million people will have even more control of their information.
The plan we’ve come up with is to remove regional networks completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone.
We’re adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we’ll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July.
Since this update will remove regional networks and create some new settings, in the next couple of weeks we’ll ask you to review and update your privacy settings. You’ll see a message that will explain the changes and take you to a page where you can update your settings. When you’re finished, we’ll show you a confirmation page so you can make sure you chose the right settings for you. As always, once you’re done you’ll still be able to change your settings whenever you want.
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Well this seems about right.
20x200 on Brian Ulrich in Your Browser
“What if you could replace all the ads on the internet with artwork? ….
It’s a bit of visual jujitsu: using the seductive power, placement and vocabulary of online advertising against itself — to deliver an image that serves as a kind of warning against putting too much faith in the promises of consumerism. In an interview last spring with Chicagoist, Ulrich said, “I think about what the Internet has done for photography that’s really wonderful: it has amplified photographys’ ability to be propaganda… I’m really trying to promote an ideology and a certain level of thinking and responsibility about consumerism to as many people as possible.”
One day in April of 1976, Chicago Daily News columnist Mike Royko decided to focus on Frank Sinatra’s arrival in the city ahead of a live show. In his column, Royko described the constant placement of Chicago cops outside Sinatra’s hotel as ‘wasteful’, derided his supposed ‘entourage of flunkies’, and remarked on what appeared to be - to Royko at least - a wig on the singer’s head. Luckily for us, Sinatra saw the column and wrote this fantastically unrestrained letter to Royko in response.
Full article here and click photo to view full letter
outrage (via chromogenic)
I remember two years ago, when ‘the Internet’ to me met sending group emails to my old college roommates. Writing was done in notebooks and I called my friends long distance with calling cards (for serious).
I remember the day friend Lindsay started posting JakobandJulia (ha!) videos from these two on my facebook wall, demanding me to watch. At the time I was working as a live-in nanny and spent my days writing in journals and
watchingcrying through more Oprah than I care to admit, a lot of time on my hands and a lot of growing up of my own to do.And so I consumed the lives of these people until all hours of the night, watching Julia post photos then take them down, write tl;dr’s before there was even such a word, I’d search self-help aisles for the books she recommended, I’d email her suggestions for her Time Out New York column (do you guys think I’m kidding? I’m not kidding!), and I would see Jakob on Bedford Avenue and double back past Tastee Delite to catch another glimpse of him, squeezing Lindsay’s forearm as we craned our necks to look.
I could not believe, and ha, can believe even less now, how obsessed I became with the entire drama, which was, with equal parts embarassment and fascination, when I realized that the lives of ‘regular people’ (ha, well) can be, and are, just as compelling.
Two years later I work at Tumblr and no longer call my friends with calling cards and the Internet is as wide as the sky- no, wider- and both of these two come into the office pretty often, but on different days.
And I always act pretty fucking nonchalant.
(via branduponthebrain)
NPR Taggers….? That’s just amusing.
um, Amamda - do u see this ?
“How true it is that a mind stretched by global experience never returns to its original dimensions.” -Abby Falik on Global Citizen Year
I couldn’t agree more and I’m so in love with Global Citizen Year’s concept. I wish I knew about this when I was in school.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JEANETTE MORROW!
It’s been such a joy getting to know and work with you this past year. Here’s to an even more exciting - and hectic - year to grow on…..
Happy Birthday!!
Nothing is muddy that runs in time and to laws of time.
- Jack Kerouac
