Comments on: How to improve privacy online – you tell us! http://blog.youthprivacy.ca/index.php/2008/06/10/how-to-improve-privacy-online-you-tell-us/ A blog for young people about protecting their online privacy, and their offline privacy Fri, 23 Dec 2011 16:18:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Foodeater133 http://blog.youthprivacy.ca/index.php/2008/06/10/how-to-improve-privacy-online-you-tell-us/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Foodeater133 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:41:49 +0000 http://28983.vws.magma.ca/?p=6#comment-7 The thing about this whole affair is that, despite privacy being the main concern, nothing about this site touches on other matters of exploitation. It seems to me that this site is caught in between two themes: "Privacy" and "Web safety". I would just go down the web safety in general instead of covering just privacy. This doesn't feel like a social networking site either. It just has that "governmental" feel. Everything seems too non-spontaneous (comments need to be approved before passing through, we can't actually post blogs and whatnot unless we forward them through the site admins which, ironically, is really bad for privacy) Posting on this site feels like more work than it should be... it's not fun (the base of the problem). I sure don't like feeling like a social experiment, yet I offer up these comments in hopes that you'll read them, listen to them, and make changes so this website is appealing to youth. The thing about this whole affair is that, despite privacy being the main concern, nothing about this site touches on other matters of exploitation.

It seems to me that this site is caught in between two themes: “Privacy” and “Web safety”. I would just go down the web safety in general instead of covering just privacy.

This doesn’t feel like a social networking site either. It just has that “governmental” feel. Everything seems too non-spontaneous (comments need to be approved before passing through, we can’t actually post blogs and whatnot unless we forward them through the site admins which, ironically, is really bad for privacy)

Posting on this site feels like more work than it should be… it’s not fun (the base of the problem). I sure don’t like feeling like a social experiment, yet I offer up these comments in hopes that you’ll read them, listen to them, and make changes so this website is appealing to youth.

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