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It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investor
by volak 9y ago
It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investors.
People who use facebook make a choice, consciously or not. They are all making a choice to sell their data in exchange for the platform.
Its not a hard sell - people sell a lot more for a lot less all the time.
Keep in mind this is not new. Companies like Sears, Walmart, Honeywell have customer data dating back 60 years. I've seen some of it. They never delete any of it - every credit card swipe, every zip code you've lived at, every product you've bought or returned.
This is the future. If you care about the uneducated or uninterested public then join a group educating people about the value of their data and what big business does with it.
Government will never be able to fix this.
- DisownedWheat 9y ago> It's not facebook's fault people are uninterested and uneducated. Every company has one responsibility and one responsibility only - to make money for investors. I 100% disagree with this statement. It's the equivalent of saying "A human has one responsibility and one responsibility only - stay alive" to hand-wave away criminal activity. Is BP not responsible for their oil spill in the Gulf because they still make money? Should pharmaceutical companies not have to put side effects on their product labels because the consumer should have educated themselves on how these chemicals affect your body? I get that companies have been doing this for a long time and people should know this, but it hasn't been happening on this scale before, nor with the amount of computing power we have today to do some frankly frightening things.