Comments on: Big Brother Facebook: Does Anyone Care?

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

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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.howinsane.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.facebook.com/event.php?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.techcrunch.com/2007.....yone-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.

By: Tony

Tony — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:36:26 +0000

Also, why do we care about facebook.com privacy issues? When Microsoft does the following:

Microsoft Corp. began concentrating harder on locking software down through a program it calls its Genuine Software Initiative.

The technology has provoked some hostility, because it enables Microsoft to remotely examine user computers. After analyzing such information as the computer’s manufacturer, hard drive serial number and Windows product identification, Microsoft can block access to certain software functions if it suspects the product was illegally copied.

I guess no one cares that Microsoft examines your personal hard ware.

How do we know that Microsoft doesn’t scan for music and movie files and reports there findings?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:21:01 +0000

Nah, of course they don’t. The whole concept of open data, standards, accessibility or even MAKING A SITE LOOK NICE probably don’t matter a **** as long as people get to talk to their mates. MySpace for example looks like an enormous and painful car crash involving about 200 pizza lorries on a busy motorway, but the fact that it looks like sh*t didn’t stop it being the next big thing.

Anyone who does this stuff and cares about what is going on under the hood finds this disconcerting, but it’s true. Ultimately it shouldn’t change us geektypes banging the drum because we all know that it is important for bigger reasons - interoperability and data protection when done well enable a horizon which is far beyond what a “standard” user would ever care about. I sound patronising but being an IT professional is about knowing best, right?

By: dc crowley

dc crowley — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:13:47 +0000

I don’t want my privacy my way. Google is not annoying me with their tactics, cause they are not putting my face on an ad! I’ll endorse nothing for you voluntarily Zuckerberg.

By: Steve Ballmer

Steve Ballmer — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:31:34 +0000

We do this for you own good! People care about that.

By: john

john — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:11:39 +0000

If you care that much, quit using Facebook….they are offering a service that you are not committed to use…so as long as Facebook notes makes the details around the data sharing obvious in their TOS, they have ever right to do what they are doing.

By: Stop Using Facebook and MySpace or Stop Complaining

Stop Using Facebook and MySpace or Stop Complaining — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 13:17:49 +0000

[...] lot of criticism toward social network sites, mainly Facebook, has erupted in the last few weeks. Techcrunch reported on a site that said, “Facebook is bad because they use our data.” Well what do [...]