http://simon.co.za/facebook-suicide/
I had a couple of problems with Simon’s view on people being anti facebook. Though I should say that I’m not planning on leaving facebook as there are no alternatives as yet. I have tried a couple others but none have the required polished. The closest I could get to was orkut and it needs some work. Bellow is my reply:
The issue with facebook is not that they are trying to make money or that that they want the information open.
Its that initially the promised to keep the information private. Which they needed to do get people to start using them.
Now times have moved on and they are wanting to make the information public. The correct method would be to say all people joining from now on by default your information is now public and all current users you may now choose to make what was private previously public.
Instead they went and made information of users that was private public. Yes you can go and change your setting and make it private. you as someone with the knowledge you have and awareness of whats going on have.
The problem comes in with people who don’t.
As you said they are a company making money and it is there system which they can do what ever they want with it.
Though as users we have the write to get upset when they break promises to us.
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