Posted by Dinah on October 26, 2009, at 9:56:27
In reply to Re: Not to mention Dr Bob that it is, posted by rskontos on October 26, 2009, at 9:03:57
I hadn't said no to Dr. Bob tweeting my posts.
I would say no to this, if I had a choice. At least with Dr. Bob I could go to his twitter page and see what he'd done. Inviting others to tweet posts feels totally different to me. At best, it gives me the creepy (to me) feeling of having people talking behind my back, in semi-public. At worst, I can see a potential that this could be used for online bullying. If Dr. Bob is giving the invite for people to use posts in this way, I hope he's also taking the responsibility for how they might be used.
I know it could always be done. But there wasn't always a button saying "Tweet Me" at the bottom of each post.
In the end it might be moot. Linking babble from your real Twitter or Facebook pages is giving those from your real life, coworkers, employers, friends, family, former schoolmates, whatever, a pretty good hint that you post here, and your posting identity might not be all that anonymous among people who know you. (Using the universal you here of course.) I can't imagine that most people would want their onscreen babble personas linked with their real life identities. So it might be just a few "real" twitter or facebook identities, and a few specially created ones that would be unlikely to be discovered by many outside a small circle who already know Babble.
As it is, I just won't post anything that matters to me. Unfortunately, I can't go back in time and choose what to post knowing this use, because it wasn't an issue then. Context is everything. Finding Babble through Google shows everything I post in context. Tweeting or linking of Facebook is a selective process that might not show context. For example, people could tweet certain blocks of Dr. Bob or certain responses he has given over the years, and out of context it might give the wrong appearance.
I'm very very disappointed that Dr. Bob did this, and how he did this. No mention beforehand, just a tweet announcing it after the fact. I had expected a more open introduction. I am also disappointed that there is no warning about the potential consequences of linking Babble to real life twitter and Facebook personas.
I can't believe that Facebook and Twitter allow this to be done against the will of the poster. There ought to be a law.
{I request that no one tweet any of my posts without asking me first.}
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