Huffington Magazine Issue 26 | Page 27

Voices NIKOLAS BADMINTON HUFFINGTON 12.09.12 Who’s in Charge of Social Media Privacy? IT WAS ANOTHER QUIET DAY in social media. The Instagram photo birds were chirping with their songs of plated food and epic sunsets, Twitter was twittering, MySpace was sleeping, YouTube was bouncing with self-promotion and Facebook was humming with ILLUSTRATION BY MARTIN GEE the statuses of the world. Then, KAPOW! Shock horror, Facebook privacy concerns. My feed was filled with frantic reposting of a status: “In response to the new Facebook guidelines, I hereby declare that my copyright is attached to Nikolas Badminton is a digital strategist in Vancouver