Undoing the overshare in social networking

The World
The World

Social networking sites make is easy to share our lives online. But, too much sharing can be disastrous. People have been fired or have seen their marriages fall apart because of a picture posted online that they had forgotten about. Numerous projects are underway to give people the ability to remove the offending material. The World's Technology Correspondent Clark Boyd reports.

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