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Analog Equivalents for Social Networks

There’s an ongoing joke in my family when it comes to the internet. I won’t let my mom be my friend on Facebook. I’ve connected to everyone else in my generation that’s in my family, but I won’t break the generational gap when friending people. On the flip side, I don’t connect to friends and people I don’t have a professional relationship with on LinkedIn and I won’t accept anything anymore on MySpace.

Viacom knows your every move on YouTube. Get used to it.

Judge Protects YouTube’s Source Code, Throws Users To The Wolves over at TechCrunch is the story I’m going to be talking about.
You know those Terms of service that you agree to when signing up for a service that says they keep your history and consider it an asset to the company? Well, a judge is [...]