Managing and sharing my digital life continues to be a balance between complete candidness and utter secrecy, and somewhere in between. Sometimes I would like the world to know what I’m doing on Instagram or Facebook and other times, I only want my intimate friends to get a glimpse into any given moment. Controlling my level of privacy is as important as controlling access to my credit card and either being compromised, has dire consequences. Imagine the look on my best friend’s face when he sees a picture of me and other friends of his at a party to which he wasn’t invited….
That’s just one of many potentially problematic scenarios so I’m extremely diligent about my privacy. Generally, there are plenty of controls for privacy on social media. The problem isn’t that there are no controls to privacy, the problem is that there are too many, they are inconsistent or they are too cumbersome to set. That’s just one of many potentially problematic scenarios so I’m extremely diligent about my privacy. Generally, there are plenty of controls for privacy on social media. The problem isn’t that there are no controls to privacy, the problem is that there are too many, they are inconsistent or they are too cumbersome to set.Portrait of an angry businessman at his laptop, on gray background
That’s just one of many potentially problematic scenarios so I’m extremely diligent about my privacy. Generally, there are plenty of controls for privacy on social media. The problem isn’t that there are no controls to privacy, the problem is that there are too many, they are inconsistent or they are too cumbersome to set.
Wouldn’t it be great to have my applications and devices just knew what I wanted to share, when I wanted to share it and to whom? That some of my friends aren’t necessarily the friends to whom I would like to share a photo so they would be excluded automatically. Or that the event I attended is one that all of my connections should be able to view.
Eventure’s social calendar application allows for users to dynamically control their privacy at an event. Event hosts have total control of their events, which includes the privacy and the content they distribute to invitees. How information is collected, distributed and shared among event attendees is based on the event privacy settings.
For example, a person creates an event – either formally or informally. As the event host, she determines whom she invites, how she and invitees interact with each other pre-event, during the event, and post-event.
She sets the event privacy setting so she controls how event attendees are able to share content and comments with others. By setting a controlled environment, pictures, videos and comments that are captured and shared by event attendees are automatically shared only with other event attendees in their Event Stream.
This allows for digital memories to be automatically shared from one’s camera phone, but only with the select group of individuals that they are intended for. Additionally, all of the pictures, videos and comments captured by everyone at the event are stored in a private event folder in each attendee’s Collections to allow for retrieval hours, days or years after the event.
This is what we call “controlled privacy” here at Eventure. It is something we think sets us a part from other calendar and social media applications and we were even awarded a patent for it! We look forward to continually improving on our privacy controls as we build out new features on our platform.
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