Comments on: Big Brother Facebook: Does Anyone Care?

By: Newsflash - Popping the Free bubble - people don’t care — Shooting at Bubbles

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 03:18:29 +0000

[...] the other side of the argument are some equally smart bloggers like Tony Hung, Don Dodge and Duncan Riley who are suggesting that it really doesn’t matter because user’s outside of the blogging [...]

By: herocious

herocious — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:24:34 +0000

Found an observational humor piece for anyone who wants to get a laugh out of the role Facebook (and Twitter) play in our need-for-attention culture:
http://theopene...s-watching-you/

By: Data banks, data brokers and citizen bargaining power | FactoryCity

Data banks, data brokers and citizen bargaining power | FactoryCity — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 06:49:25 +0000

[...] so we’ve leapt to “data portability” for nerds, forgetting that most people 1) don’t care about this stuff 2) are happy to exchange their data for services as long as their friends are doing it too 3) [...]

By: Jewelry girl

Jewelry girl — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 14:52:00 +0000

Great topic. I bookmarked facebook!

By: Unit Structures – We’re not sheep, you’re just not paying attention

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:25:39 +0000

[...] have, on cue, posted about privacy apathy. These bloggers argue that we’re sheep, that we don’t care about privacy, and that like Newsfeed, we don’t care about Beacon and our cross-site privacy. These [...]

By: Post-privacy society | www.James-Strocel.com

Post-privacy society | www.James-Strocel.com — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 04:13:43 +0000

[...] Whenever the idea of any large entity having access to our “data” whether it’s facebook, comcast, or the City of Seattle. We go on multi-minute tirades on the right to privacy and the [...]

By: Report That Facebook May Cave on Beacon: Victory For Users May Be Nigh

Report That Facebook May Cave on Beacon: Victory For Users May Be Nigh — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:25:30 +0000

[...] program has become a major issue in the tech community, with TechCrunch readers voting strongly in our poll of November 25 that Facebook’s current practices worry [...]

By: Deep Jive Interests » Why PageRank Still Means Something To Me

Deep Jive Interests » Why PageRank Still Means Something To Me — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:26:49 +0000

[...] to me, is a measure of the great links I’ve accumulated over the past year or so, such as TechCrunch, Mashable, Valleywag, ReadWriteWeb, 37Signals, CNet, Direct2Dell, and the UK’s Guardian [...]

By: D.E.

D.E. — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:15:18 +0000

I will never use Social Networking in general. I put the buttons on my sites/blogs but why should I use it myself ?

Waste of time IMHO and maybe all the (self-)advertising people do on it … that’s the tax they have to pay for being … unremarkable.

FB is a closed network they tell me ( I do get invitations ) … it’s not hard to install a blog and have a “members only” area to share with a limited audience and … you might learn something creating it …. yourself.

BIG difference = you keep c o n t r o l and I like to control what I create.

Facebook can kiss my derrière …

But as TC put’s it : who cares anyway.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:31:04 +0000

I recently wrote and article about Britney Spears and facebook swiped it from my site.

http://www.howi...sane.com/?p=720

By: jonas

jonas — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 11:19:10 +0000

its funny that people worry so much about this, whilst not thinking at all about the vast amount of data that all of those “customer programs” collect on you..

By: Email Dashboard

Email Dashboard — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:18:15 +0000

How Privacy and Data Rights Policies Really Stack Up…

Doc Searls, Dave Winer, Jason Calacanis, Howard Lindzon, and many others have been writing about privacy and data ownership issues on Facebook. But I haven’t seen a comparison of policies showing how Facebook actually stacks up against other players …

By: Peter Griffyn

Peter Griffyn — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 23:12:28 +0000

There is a saying I once heard…

‘Do not complain about anything you do not have to subject yourself too.’

By: Collab@work » Blog Archive » The Illusion of Privacy

Collab@work » Blog Archive » The Illusion of Privacy — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:27:56 +0000

[...] would not want companies using some or all of that information. This goes along the same vein as a poll recently done on Techcrunch (see image below) where a majority of respondents seemed concerned about new Facebook privacy [...]

By: sauce

sauce — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 22:15:18 +0000

http://www.face...?eid=5855804562

By: Richard Holloway

Richard Holloway — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:11:37 +0000

You need to add another option to the voting list:

Does Facebook’s Privacy and Data Policies Worry You?

“No, because I’m clever enough to use Firefox’s Adblock Plus”

Blocks all this Beacon nonsense. It’s amazing what a little hunting around can do.

By: BikerSeek

BikerSeek — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:47:40 +0000

Folks will start singing a different tune, once Christmas gifts start getting outted to their boy-/girl-friends via those stupid feed announcements…

“X just bought an engagement ring at Zales.com!”

Ya…great idea to broadcast that without permission…

Then, watch all Hell break loose.

By: Seven Mile » Blog Archive » Monday Linkfest

Seven Mile » Blog Archive » Monday Linkfest — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:57:04 +0000

[...] Big Brother Facebook: Does anybody care? http://www.tech...es-anyone-care/ [...]

By: Big Bopper

Big Bopper — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:51:06 +0000

Social networks greed invariably pushes them to do things they know deep down are wrong. Eventually, this greed will bite them on the tushy.

Beacon’s laughable privacy position of opt-out-if-you-happen-to-see-this-notification-box-we’re-really-trying-to-hide-from-you, is going to stack bad customer experience stories from here to the sun and back before this Christmas. Once enough people see their “surprise” gifts published to their friends and families news feeds, the backlash will be Oprah-level. Mark my words, there will be feature stories on primetime TV during the holiday break on this showing you how to turn off the sharing of any private information on Facebook. Oh, and probably quite a few people who pledge never again to shop at online vendors who participate in this ridiculous scheme.

By: Liza

Liza — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 18:11:29 +0000

Amy I agree with you 100%. What I object to is the opt-out policy of sharing information with the network. Facebook makes me very reluctant to share any information that I would happily give them to use for targeting, because given all the various sharing applications they have, I’m never entirely sure about what is going to be broadcast. It would be a much better experience if for every personal update you provide (contact info, whatever) they prompt you for how you want to use it. The features that are no brainers for the college crowd are definitely major concerns for grown-ups with jobs, as well as newbies – and that’s where the growth is coming from.

By: Control and Compensation « Dawnkey Notes

Control and Compensation « Dawnkey Notes — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:48:12 +0000

[...] Startup — dawnkey @ 10:48 am And so it starts. All over the Web (look here, here and here to start), people are already calling for control of their personal data and compensation for its [...]

By: augustus

augustus — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:32:39 +0000

My view is simply that Facebook and Myspace will never become useful for mainstream because of the privacy concerns.

I use Facebook and Myspace sparingly and dont use my real name.

As far as Google, I never use Google when I am signed in so the data they have on my search strings – I don’t really care.

Augustus

By: Antje Wilsch

Antje Wilsch — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:01:14 +0000

@Tony – they probably do, but they’re not emailing my friends telling them what I’ve recently purchsed. I think google and all software companies collect data and I think most are beyond caring about that. It’s the sharing part within the social network that people don’t like or appreciate.

By: Facebook poll: flawed, but do you care? « electronic museum

Facebook poll: flawed, but do you care? « electronic museum — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:49:45 +0000

[...] as always pile into the debate with a simple point and a simple question: do people actually care? According to the poll they’re running, the stats (so far) look like the graph on left (click [...]

By: Kyle Else

Kyle Else — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:34:10 +0000

Check out Yahoo Shortcuts for a scary picture of privacy concerns – I first noticed this when reading my email from inside the Yahoo Mail client. Keywords inside the body of my private emails were underlined by the Yahoo Shortcuts technology.