Is your home's front door keys, always available, to all your extended family and 'friends', that you haven't met in years? No.
Does your Kindergarten classmate, who you barely meet in person, come in to your house, when you are away and peruse your photo albums and home video, just because they are bored? Probably not.
But, that is exactly, what is happening in our digital lives. When we share pictures and video to our "friends", it is available to them forever, to do whatever they want, whenever they want and we rely on their honor code, rather than on an explicit social contract.
"Why should people 'own' my video or photo? asks Saranya. Why can't I share access to my photos and videos, when I want to, to whom I want to and for how long?"
That question set me thinking. If you are buying a TV Show in iTunes, you don't 'own' the content, you are merely given access to watch it, in the ways, that they support.... and you cannot download a YouTube Video without violating terms of use.
If that is the case with corporations, why should we hand our, keys to our digital life, to all our 'friends', giving them unlimited access and license. This is precisely the root cause of the "Randi Zuckerberg" incident.
When you create a 20 minute video of your kids' birthday party, let a program magically create a summary of that video and share a minute video synopsis in Facebook, to your friends, accessible during that week/day and not forever. But, your mom could access the complete video, whenever she wants to, from your Dropbox.
Share access to the Video/Photo, not the Video/Photo itself. Let Social media, give back the keys, to our digital life, so that we not only control access as to who gets in, but when they get in and for how long?
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