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This article was absurdly dramatic. He's right about one thing, though -- that the media is largely influencing the public opinion of Facebook. The number of em
by char 16y ago
This article was absurdly dramatic. He's right about one thing, though -- that the media is largely influencing the public opinion of Facebook. The number of emotionally fueled articles that have been written about Facebook recently (at least in my opinion) greatly outweighs the actual severity of the situation.
- Qz 16y agoI think the issue is not really the current severity of the situation, but the potential severity of the situation.
- megablast 16y agoThe guy has a lot to feel bitter about, I do believe he got a pay out that set him up quite well. The media does like stories, and nothing better than building something up to be huge, and then shooting it down. Recent episodes of this include Microsoft and Apple. But despite what the media says, or how powerful the media seems to believe it is, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook are still strong and huge. The average person just does not concern themselves with what seems to be SO important to the media. In regards to facebook, the simple fact is that we have all been losing privacy for many years, thanks to technology. We are photographed, filmed, tracked, catalogued so many times in the modern day, and this worries the majority very little. They still carry supermarket loyalty cards, fill out surveys, put in their real names and addresses. I can't see this affecting facebook in any meaningful way. I wish I was wrong.
- yaroslavvb 16y agoI agree. And personally, I find a big gap between what concerns "the media" and the people around me. Among my 400 facebook friends, I've gotten 2 or 3 status updates concerned with new privacy rules. Meanwhile on hacker news I see a dozen of articles in a day about it
- MicahWedemeyer 16y agoTotally agree here. Most average people just dont care.
- hugh3 16y agoSelection bias? People concerned with facebook privacy aren't making status updates any more?
- electromagnetic 16y agoIf the people concerned with privacy issues leave the service, doesn't it inherently resolve the issue?
- hugh3 16y agoFor them, yes. For Joe Whoops-I-Didn't-Want-My-Mother-To-Know-I-Was-Gay perhaps not.
- yaroslavvb 16y agoMaybe...also the fact that I have 400 "friends" says something. You can't possibly know that many people well enough to trust them. And the fact that they accepted my friend requests means they didn't care about keeping their information secret in a first place. Maybe it's different for an average user (120 connections apparently), although that still seems too high to share sensitive information.
- scorpion032 16y agoWhen you have more users than there are people in the whole of US of A, any response towards what you do is bound to be amplified.