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Facebook's privacy bait and switch
- pasbesoin 16y agoWhat this article's analogy misses is the hook that keeps (informed) people caught at Facebook. They've captured a de facto sole online social community. Your family and friends (both real and virutal) are on Facebook. Moving means severing many of those connections, and severing the ease of access to them. In that sense, Facebook's actions approach extortion. Put up with our expanded, self-serving use of your data, or lose your relationships. In the analogy, moving to a different apartment building doesn't mean losing access to your friends.