Archive for September 2007

Facebook’s Watching Out For Me

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I got a lot of messages on my Facebook wall today (thanks for the birthday wishes, everyone!), but one time when I went to check out what was on my wall, I got a strange message back from Facebook:

A Facebook message I got today saying that all members under 18 must belong to a school network.

There’s been a lot in the news recently about the danger of children under 18 being on social networks, especially since MySpace has over 29,000 known sex offenders registered with pages. I fully support measures to keep children safe (which Facebook has to push for since they stopped being a college-only site), but I have a couple issues with this particular message.

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Inaccurate Usability

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Behind the Times

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Counterintuitive Noticeability and Temporary Distractions

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