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> multiple networks, different levels of trust I keep waiting for either Facebook to solve this problem, or for someone else to solve it. Google comes closest
by hrabago 16y ago
> multiple networks, different levels of trust
I keep waiting for either Facebook to solve this problem, or for someone else to solve it. Google comes closest with their social network concept. On the one hand, I hope they pull it off. On the other, I try to minimize giving Google much more information about me than they already collect, so I'm not sure how comfortable I'll be on their social network. I suppose I'm hoping their success pushes Facebook to implement a similar concept.
- onwardly 16y agoI don't give a shit what Google knows about me. Its like the big poker websites. If they get caught cheating, then EVERYONE will jump ship and they will die. Google is (I think) too smart to truly violate my privacy, nevermind ads targeted to Prozac after that nasty breakup email.
- pyman 16y agoOne word: Buzz. It violated everyone's privacy.
- patrickaljord 16y agoBuzz was an opt-in.
- jiganti 16y agoIn 2007 there was a big scandal on Absolute Poker where employees cheated internally and took millions off of players. In 2008, it was discovered that something similar was happening on UltimateBet. They refunded considerable amounts, I received a four figure refund but knew people getting as much as a quarter million back. These two sites were semi-boycotted by the online poker community (twoplustwo.com is the HN of online poker) but this ultimately didn't work. The reason being that recreational/poor players didn't know about the scandal and continued to play there, which made the games so easy to beat that many players tossed their morals aside and made a killing.
- onwardly 16y agoI stand corrected ;) But Google is different than poker sites, just imagine the uproar. Just for gathering data for maps they've gotten in a ton of trouble.