Just say no to social networks

Sorry it is not technical, but I have to pass along this great article by a Harvard professor on why he refuses to join your social network. When your teen daughter puts up a picture of herself drunk and naked, you will be astonished to find that Facebook or LinkedIn or whoever, owns all the rights to any pictures or content uploaded to them. Sorry, I don’t give out my information to any of these aggregator sites either. I get enough spam, phone calls violating the do-not-call list, and junk mail.

The best thing about the article is the fictitious names he comes up with to refer to the social sites:

LinkedFaceTickleFreakSpaceFriend

BooBooFunnyFaceCookBook

MissingLinkSausageFaceSourPickle

Too funny, this guy goes in my hero book right next to that other Harvard professor, the one that wrote the Innovator’s Dilemma.