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My thoughts exactly 'whoops we're getting bad publicity, how do we deal with this bad publicity yet still cream all these profits by compromising our userbase'
by paulnelligan 16y ago
My thoughts exactly
'whoops we're getting bad publicity, how do we deal with this bad publicity yet still cream all these profits by compromising our userbase's privacy, we need some innovative marketing strategies here people'
how likely is the following scenario? :
'well, actually, we have been kind of assholes on the whole
privacy issue. Let's respect people a little more. Sure, we might not cream as much profit from it, but the world might actually be a better place as a result'
- mrvir 16y agoNot very likely scenario as the CEO has publicly stated that he's not a big believer in Internet privacy. It is already evident that they are ready to take bad press in slowly loosening the privacy. The real issue that Facebook has with privacy is how to get rid of it. My two cents: FB is set out to collect as much social info about as many people as possible. Probably they have much more data about the folks than we know and that can seen through FB site or API. Their problem is that they cannot openly sell/share that data with partners. So they need to get to the point where they can argue legally (guessing this will end up in court at least here in Europe) that the members have permitted them to collect all that info.