The Ethics of Social Networking

Unfortunately, we can't take Stanford up on the free lunch offer. I did, however, find the questions posed in the event's description really interesting, and thought that maybe, in the spirit of the commons, we could borrow them to discuss Benkler and Facebook or perhaps get Dan Nye's take on these issues.

Questions:

• Has “online privacy” become an oxymoron, or are we bound to develop a "new privacy" concept that prioritizes nuanced control of personal information? Is this new concept tenable?
• What are the benefits and risks of the standardization of social networking?
• What impact does social networking technology have on interpersonal virtues?
• Are we witnessing the flattening of social landscape by online networks?
• And can one be a college student without Facebook?