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Considering that real, verified information about people and their social network is so valuable, it seems so weird that FB gave it all away so easily. If you h

Considering that real, verified information about people and their social network is so valuable, it seems so weird that FB gave it all away so easily. If you have 50,000 users in America and can get the entire list of friends and friends of friends, and the personal / political information about them, you basically have the entire country. Now wait until someone gets this information and dumps it in a torrent. Will be abused for decades.

adamnemecek 8y ago
I wonder if this is because FB is trying really hard to get into China. IIRC Zuckerberg offered Xi to name his first born child. https://mashable.com/2017/09/18/zuckerberg-chinese-president-baby-names/ https://mashable.com/2017/09/18/zuckerberg-chinese-president... My cringe muscles are getting such a workout these days.
- JackCh 8y ago
  Yeah, Xi turned down the offer too. Probably the most bizarre Zuckerberg story I've read yet, which is saying quite a bit. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11910668/Chinese-president-snubs-Mark-Zuckerbergs-request-for-baby-name.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/119106...
  - joering2 8y ago
    Can you imagine asking Adolph Hitler or Stalin for the name for your child? "It was an honour to meet President Xi [...]" I threw up a little...
    - adamnemecek 8y ago
      They need them clicks.
spunker540 8y ago
The truth is that info is not all that valuable to Facebook -- they make all their money off of eyeballs. The personal user data they have (status updates, photos, comments) aren't very useful to advertisers. Their most profitable ads are when companies leverage their own proprietary data on the facebook network by connecting their user base to facebook's via cookies and showing you those shoes you were shopping for directly in your facebook feed (without ever caring about your likes!).

adamnemecek 8y ago

I wonder if this is because FB is trying really hard to get into China. IIRC Zuckerberg offered Xi to name his first born child. https://mashable.com/2017/09/18/zuckerberg-chinese-president-baby-names/ https://mashable.com/2017/09/18/zuckerberg-chinese-president... My cringe muscles are getting such a workout these days.

JackCh 8y ago
Yeah, Xi turned down the offer too. Probably the most bizarre Zuckerberg story I've read yet, which is saying quite a bit. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/11910668/Chinese-president-snubs-Mark-Zuckerbergs-request-for-baby-name.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/119106...
- joering2 8y ago
  Can you imagine asking Adolph Hitler or Stalin for the name for your child? "It was an honour to meet President Xi [...]" I threw up a little...
  - adamnemecek 8y ago
    They need them clicks.

spunker540 8y ago

The truth is that info is not all that valuable to Facebook -- they make all their money off of eyeballs. The personal user data they have (status updates, photos, comments) aren't very useful to advertisers. Their most profitable ads are when companies leverage their own proprietary data on the facebook network by connecting their user base to facebook's via cookies and showing you those shoes you were shopping for directly in your facebook feed (without ever caring about your likes!).