Schoolyard Answer: when you own the ball. Everyday Answer: It is not okay. This is what a certain social media giant has done. Be very careful what you put on to any social media site, whether it is the micro blogging variety or one of the others or the giant. Every week there is another story of an American company using information that they should not have been able to access to decide not to hire someone or, even worse, to fire someone. We need to reclaim our privacy, online and offline, before it is too late. I will be keeping an eye on the diaspora project at "http://www.joindiaspora.com/project.html".
Random thoughts and idle musings