As a general point of internet etiquette, you should probably avoid reposting and/or citing comments people make on Facebook. Facebook is supposed to have a semblance of privacy; it’s supposed to be a place where you can make joking, half-baked comments to your friends without worrying that someone on the internet is going to call you out for it.
Facebook has privacy settings, such that anyone who wants to limit their posts’ direct visibility can.
Whether you should take someone else’s settings as explicit consent should probably vary from person to person, but I think the “if he didn’t want it to be widely seen he wouldn’t have set it up to be widely seen” heuristic is probably accurate when applied to EY, even if it’s not applicable to every Joe Grandpa.
Even in the Joe Grandpa case, it doesn’t seem like merely avoiding citing and moving on is a good solution. If you truly fear that someone is sharing more to the world than they intend to, the kind thing to do is inform them and help them fix it, not ignore them and pray that everyone else who stumbles upon it shares your sense of decorum.
EY was explicit about him posting certain views to facebook instead of posting them to LW because of the reputational cost that comes from him posting far-out ideas on LW. That why he deleted his last big post (the 1st april post).
As a general point of internet etiquette, you should probably avoid reposting and/or citing comments people make on Facebook. Facebook is supposed to have a semblance of privacy; it’s supposed to be a place where you can make joking, half-baked comments to your friends without worrying that someone on the internet is going to call you out for it.
Whaaaaa..?
That looks to me like a fundamental misunderstanding of teh intertubes and, of course, FB itself.
Netiquette has rules about what/how/when you could repost, but that doesn’t mean that FB has any kind of privacy.
Facebook has privacy settings, such that anyone who wants to limit their posts’ direct visibility can.
Whether you should take someone else’s settings as explicit consent should probably vary from person to person, but I think the “if he didn’t want it to be widely seen he wouldn’t have set it up to be widely seen” heuristic is probably accurate when applied to EY, even if it’s not applicable to every Joe Grandpa.
Even in the Joe Grandpa case, it doesn’t seem like merely avoiding citing and moving on is a good solution. If you truly fear that someone is sharing more to the world than they intend to, the kind thing to do is inform them and help them fix it, not ignore them and pray that everyone else who stumbles upon it shares your sense of decorum.
EY was explicit about him posting certain views to facebook instead of posting them to LW because of the reputational cost that comes from him posting far-out ideas on LW. That why he deleted his last big post (the 1st april post).
Good point. I agree. I think the point I was making could be abstracted away from it anyway, so I edited my post accordingly.