Unpacking the Paradoxes of Privacy in CMC Relationships
This chapter deals with the privacy and openness in CMC, specifically SNSs. The chapter discusses blogs, facebook, and briefly twitter. I think its important that they differentiated the three as each has a different set of "ground rules" for interaction. The chapter gives a loose overview of some of the factors and reasons for different views people have on privacy management or CPM, and its importance and effects. Most of it seemed intuitive, such as the more anonymity a person had the more safe they feel revealing or saying things they wouldn't normally in a face to face encounter. However when they discussed talking in code in a blog journal as a method of protecting privacy Im not sure exactly what they mean by that. I assume they don't mean pig latin or a literal "secret code", but they never elaborate on it and they refer to "speaking in code" a number of times. Some clarification would be appreciated. In addition their are a variety of forms of SNSs and all but infinite complexities that go into personal justification and decision making regarding CPM. To draw general conclusions about how people see privacy and its role in SNS is risky. You would have to look at a very specific aspect of CPM with a specific SNS. I would think drawing broad or general conclusions of CPM in SNS as a whole would be almost useless. I should note that again they mention that much of the data is still being collected and that may be why they speak in general terms and theory.
I found one place where they talk about using coded language (p. 29) and the one thing I thought of was that some bloggers use pseudonyms or initials rather than referring to actual names in order to keep their identities private. The authors could have given better examples of this, though, I agree.
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