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How are people still obsessed about facebook. Where was all this rage for the equifax hack? It boggles my mind.

by nambit 9y ago

hackinthebochs 9y ago
I'm convinced this is a media-created tempest in a teapot. From what I've seen, regular people just don't care all that much. The media latches on to any issue with facebook because it brings in more eyeballs.
- TAForObvReasons 9y ago
  > The best and the brightest have been heading to Silicon Valley because they want to build the future. ... “Tech” implies an intellectual practice in which engineers build neat things to improve the world. The major tech companies are businesses. That’s all they are. They innovate how to make money. This extends far beyond Facebook or the recent scandal, and gets to the heart of a deep rift over the last few decades. Many people have had a deep skepticism over technology and its motivations, and the broad-scale beliefs about "making the world a better place" are really being called into question now.
  - trophycase 9y ago
    > They innovate how to make money I've never heard this before but that's a very interesting point!
en4bz 9y ago
Facebook is in direct competition with old media. Equifax is not.
badcede 9y ago
Name recognition.
microwavecamera 9y ago
Because Equifax was hacked while Facebook knowingly provided or sold people's personal data. I fully agree Equifax was criminally negligent and should have been nailed to the wall for it, but what FB did/still does is premeditated.
- prostoalex 9y ago
  FB had two levels of opt-out - first one for the users not consenting to provide their data to the app (a “cancel” button on the app permissions dialogue) and the second one a global Facebook Platform opt-out when you wanted to prevent your friends from passing on same data. Equifax had none.
cjsawyer 9y ago
I mean, most of my interaction with hacker news is through the bot that reposts to facebook. The UI is better and since it’s half of my FB feed I effectively have one less homescreen icon to think about
Shikadi 9y ago
I mean, there was a lot of equifax rage where I live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

How are people still obsessed about facebook. Where was all this rage for the equifax hack? It boggles my mind.

by nambit 9y ago

How are people still obsessed about facebook. Where was all this rage for the equifax hack? It boggles my mind.

I'm convinced this is a media-created tempest in a teapot. From what I've seen, regular people just don't care all that much. The media latches on to any issue with facebook because it brings in more eyeballs.

TAForObvReasons 9y ago
> The best and the brightest have been heading to Silicon Valley because they want to build the future. ... “Tech” implies an intellectual practice in which engineers build neat things to improve the world. The major tech companies are businesses. That’s all they are. They innovate how to make money. This extends far beyond Facebook or the recent scandal, and gets to the heart of a deep rift over the last few decades. Many people have had a deep skepticism over technology and its motivations, and the broad-scale beliefs about "making the world a better place" are really being called into question now.
- trophycase 9y ago
  > They innovate how to make money I've never heard this before but that's a very interesting point!

en4bz 9y ago

Facebook is in direct competition with old media. Equifax is not.

badcede 9y ago

Name recognition.

microwavecamera 9y ago

Because Equifax was hacked while Facebook knowingly provided or sold people's personal data. I fully agree Equifax was criminally negligent and should have been nailed to the wall for it, but what FB did/still does is premeditated.

prostoalex 9y ago
FB had two levels of opt-out - first one for the users not consenting to provide their data to the app (a “cancel” button on the app permissions dialogue) and the second one a global Facebook Platform opt-out when you wanted to prevent your friends from passing on same data. Equifax had none.

cjsawyer 9y ago

I mean, most of my interaction with hacker news is through the bot that reposts to facebook. The UI is better and since it’s half of my FB feed I effectively have one less homescreen icon to think about

Shikadi 9y ago

I mean, there was a lot of equifax rage where I live ¯\_(ツ)_/¯