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Amazon gets deeper into social shopping with linked Facebook accounts

Yes, I do check Amazon every morning as part of my nerdy book editor due diligence to see how my books are doing. This is what I saw this morning, and I wrote about it at Medium. If you like it, I'd love it if you'd click "Recommend" at the bottom.

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Published on February 14, 2014 11:25
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message 1: by Sandy (new)
Feb 15, 2014 09:17AM

Sandy Lu Last year, I decided to minimize my facebook presence due to the threat of using my private pictures for advertising. When I posted them, I thought only my friends could access them. Now random facebook users are being prosecuted for posting pictures of their children. Remember when nudie baby pics were de rigeur? Well the whole idea of the NSA having access to my relationships and circles of friends is just too creepy for me to be able to enjoy facebook any more. And yes, I mourn the loss of connection with farflung extend family members and friends.

The other point is that I've evolved to be totally different from my extended family and high school and college friends. I don't want them to know my current reading habits! n fact, I regret ever opening a facebook account and wish I had a way to permanently wipe it from the facebook servers.

As far as finding new books to read, I prefer (semi)professional reviews on the blogs I frequent to recommendations from people I know for the above reasons. In fact I found R.K. Bussel via a review on the Dirty Sexy Books Blog (now defunct).

I'm beginning to really detest social media; it really different from snail mail in that it doesn't have the same legal protections. We've had a very open internet for many years but now that's changing and the internet is starting to be more closed. People with more power than me trying to decide what I get to see online. It's beginning to look like banning books from local libraries!

There is great possibility, responsibility, and enjoyment in social media and I hope some bright woman figures out a way to create a secure social media. Valuing Freedom above Safety is the only way to attain both (according to B. Franklin).


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