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What facebook enemies need is a headline. "Little girl brutally murdered after FB's privacy controls reveal her to a crazy stalker" People just don't respond
by powrtoch 16y ago
What facebook enemies need is a headline.
"Little girl brutally murdered after FB's privacy controls reveal her to a crazy stalker"
People just don't respond to rational argument, data, and talk the way they do to fear. Obviously for the little girl's sake I hope this never happens, but honestly I don't see Facebook going down any other way anytime soon.
- mortuus 16y agoMySpace started getting a lot of negative coverage in mainstream media in terms of personal safety (bad people out there). (e.g. http://www.ktvu.com/news/7783930/detail.html http://www.ktvu.com/news/7783930/detail.html) Facebook's earlier negatives were more in line with employers screening you out of jobs or tracking your use (http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/social-media-misuse/ http://mashable.com/2009/08/10/social-media-misuse/) Now with privacy being the big story, this may evolve to more of what you suggest, though there are already horror stories: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256552/Facebook-stalker-Paul-Bristol-killed-Camille-Mathurasingh-seeing-new-man.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1256552/Facebook-sta... It's not clear what drives the stories/cultural view, though 146's comment about having a viable alternative seems to be important in actually causing people to quit a service. Who are the 'facebook enemies'?