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> What a subset of geeks want is an open architecture that with fine-grained privacy controls. The average person wants that about as much as they want to ensur
by DrSprout 16y ago
> What a subset of geeks want is an open architecture that with fine-grained privacy controls. The average person wants that about as much as they want to ensure that they have access to the source code of their operating system.
That's extremely condescending. Everyone I know wishes they had better control over their privacy on Facebook. The problem is that properly understanding and maintaining Facebook's current privacy controls would probably take several hours a month of analysis. That's intentional - Facebook is making the privacy controls too complex, and changing them too frequently for anyone to manage them properly.
- singer 16y ago> Everyone I know wishes they had better control over their privacy on Facebook. Sure -- everyone you know. However, the average person has little or no interest in learning about and/or configuring privacy features.
- stcredzero 16y agoBut what average users want is so little. Done correctly, social networking could do what they want without such a heavy price to pay in terms of loss of privacy and control over personal information.
- nooneelse 16y agoThis is manifestly not just a geeky thing. Go read the news coverage of the last few major Facebook changes and you will see that the chorus of concerned people has been growing quite well. "It does what you like about Facebook, except only you control who sees your stuff" would be a simple sell to lots of people.