Hoy he acabado en un barecito de la zona de Ópera (Madrid) con decoración rara (dicen que popera) y donde se pueden tomar zumos naturales caseros y tarta de chocolate con nata, además de algunos cóckteles. Perfecto para pasar una tarde-noche hablando tranquilamente; en la planta de abajo la música se escucha más baja que en la de arriba. :)

Calle Unión, 2.

First of all, you’re not obliged to share anything you don’t want to. If you’re depressed and don’t want to tell anybody about it, nobody will interrogate you and post it in your status feed. If you’ve make up with somebody, Facebook won’t tell this to your parents.

Second, Facebook has one of the most flexible privacy settings customization I’ve ever seen. You can choose who can see each part of your profile, photos taken by you, photos of you, data sharing with 3rd party applications and much, much more, like if you allow Google to index your “profile page” or if you want to appear in public searches of people.

Some people is concerned by the possibility of somebody uploading photos of them drunk. Well, this can always happen even if you don’t have an account and:

1. You can choose not to share your photos with everybody so unauthorized people won’t see these photos as “photos of you”.
2. You can contact your “friend” and ask him/her to remove these photos, please.
3. You can eventually report the photo to the Facebook staff for them to hide it, if the previous step didn’t work.

Whereas I must agree on that social networks encourage people to share more than they would have shared outside them, I don’t think the problem is in the tool but in the people using it – one has to keep in mind what’s he sharing and with who.

I’ve not read the whole Privacy Policies of Facebook so I’m not aware of all the privacy issues that could emerge from them, but I don’t think it can be worse than receiving tons of printed ads in your ordinary mailbox everyday, or even some governments’ surveillance.

Hay amigos que marcan un durante en tu vida. Qué haría yo sin ti.

To avoid repeating myself over and over again, I wish Merry Christmas (With Capital Letters) and a Fucking Awesome New Year to all my colleagues, family and friends.

Tururú!

PS. Please don’t make Baby Jesus cry and avoid sending tons of emails and postcards wishing super-hiper-mega-merry christmas to everybody – post funny pictures and messages in your blog instead!

People are often afraid of putting their sensitive data online because they don’t trust the sites’ policies. They might think these hosting companies are going to sell their data to the spammers, track their web searches, and run to their homes to arrest them.

Well, I don’t have any problem at all with publishing my bookmarks online, sharing what I’m doing with my friends on the social networks or, why not, speaking my mind on this blog, because I don’t want to hide all that, I would love everybody interested to read it and be happy. Of course, if I had something to hide, the last place where I would put it is a social network or any other public site on the Internet: I’d encrypt it in a piece of paper, or better, in my brain.

Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments… if you don’t worry about being indexed by Google! ;-)

Arriba, pongo caritas mientras unos violadores se intentan aprovechar de mí. Y encima se ríen los muy salidorros.