Comments on: The dangers of the cloud http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/01/the-dangers-of-the-cloud.html Ian Betteridge on Macs, mobiles, and technology Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:45:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Ian Betteridge http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/01/the-dangers-of-the-cloud.html/comment-page-1#comment-224 Ian Betteridge Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:55:13 +0000 http://www.ianbetteridge.co.uk/technovia/2008/01/the-dangers-of-the-cloud.html#comment-224 <p>Hi Alan - you're not the only one. A friend of mine was recently kicked off Facebook for using the online name she's been known as for many year. But of course it's not a "real" name, so that's not enough for Facebook.</p> Hi Alan – you’re not the only one. A friend of mine was recently kicked off Facebook for using the online name she’s been known as for many year. But of course it’s not a “real” name, so that’s not enough for Facebook.

]]> By: alan p http://www.technovia.co.uk/2008/01/the-dangers-of-the-cloud.html/comment-page-1#comment-225 alan p Fri, 11 Jan 2008 18:31:46 +0000 http://www.ianbetteridge.co.uk/technovia/2008/01/the-dangers-of-the-cloud.html#comment-225 <p>Ian We too were thrown off late Facebook last year (pre Scoble), for the heinous sin of not using my real name (it was called broadstuff - our blog). The key lesson learned for anybody dealing with any webservice is that you <em>have</em> to have ultimate control of your data. With Facebook in particular there is another lesson - they don't contact you to see if you can sort things out or "put your affairs in order", they just disable the account. You hus need to create dynamic backups.</p> Ian We too were thrown off late Facebook last year (pre Scoble), for the heinous sin of not using my real name (it was called broadstuff – our blog). The key lesson learned for anybody dealing with any webservice is that you have to have ultimate control of your data. With Facebook in particular there is another lesson – they don’t contact you to see if you can sort things out or “put your affairs in order”, they just disable the account. You hus need to create dynamic backups.

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