While years ago it was 'cool' to have hundreds of friends on Facebook, nowadays I see more and more friends unfriending all kinds of people on Facebook. We prefer to keep only people in our network that we really want to stay up to date with. The boss can go and we keep grandma on.
Making social networks smaller and private is a trend that is not new, but seems to be gaining traction. In this video list to data I discuss Facebook privacy and the rise of small-scale private networks.
We don’t want the whole world to see our family photos, so we set our Facebook profiles to private. We’re becoming more aware of privacy settings and are less likely to unfriend people. However, Facebook doesn’t offer all the privacy options and convenience we want, so other tools are emerging that do or do a better job.
I recently went to South by Southwest, one of the largest internet and technology events in the world – and saw this trend there too. At one of the booths I found Light.ws . It allows you to share videos and photos privately with your closest friends and family. It’s like Dropbox for Facebook. You don’t have to share anything publicly, it’s really about sharing content between you and the people you care about. In addition, with Light.ws you can also give your children a life file with all your videos and photos from your entire life.