Prompted by the recent Facebook uproar, Scott Karp of Publishing 2.0 believes most users of social networking applications have yet to realize what kind of new world they’re entering:

It’s one thing for people to share their personal information in public when it’s only their friends stopping by to see what’s up, but when they wake up to the fact that technology can enable this information to be tracked and syndicated across the network — suddenly everyone starts to feel pretty naked. And granted this is just a matter of perceptions — information on Facebook is no more publicly accessible than it was before, but suddenly everyone is casting around for a fig leaf.

Link: Publishing 2.0 — This Is What the Social Networking Privacy Backlash Looks Like