What Libraries Can Learn from Facebook
Posted by Celia Walter | 25 Feb, 2009Peter Bromberg at Library Garden discusses privacy issues in light of the recent Facebook TOS controversy in What Libraries Can Learn from Facebook.
iLibrarian blog“We know all this, and we personally experience the benefits, but librarians still seem generally loathe to let our customers share their personal information in exchange for anything. We don’t just protect customer privacy, we paternalistically protect it from the customers themselves, rendering them childlike. Our privacy philosophy often reduces down to, “We know better”, or “You can’t be trusted with that–you’ll hurt yourself.”