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Facebook's faux pas seem to be coming thick and fast, yet it makes no dent in their apparent popularity. What sort of a beast is this that it can't be slayed by

by osrec 8y ago

Facebook's faux pas seem to be coming thick and fast, yet it makes no dent in their apparent popularity. What sort of a beast is this that it can't be slayed by scandal after scandal?! I mean, much of the media hate it, and they jump on any chance to berate it. I personally hate it, as do a lot of other "geeky people" I know. Yet still everyone wants to use it, all the time. It's like no one actually cares about privacy. Or what Facebook provides in exchange for privacy is somehow worth it? To me, the value proposition of Facebook simply doesn't add up... I guess much of the world strongly disagrees.

Jonnerz 8y ago
Much of the world just don't care, especially young people. It's as simple as that really.
- vixen99 8y ago
  That's for sure. So one interesting question, what might happen that would lead them to care?
jimjimjim 8y ago
sign of the times. there are no repercussions anymore. uber, telcos, <cough>white house</cough>, facebook, airlines (beaten anybody up recently?), fifa, equifax. and it sucks.
- TeMPOraL 8y ago
  Were they ever? I read corporate horror stories as far back as corporations exist, and until the last ~100 years, the world was a totally fucked up mess anyway.
ledfrog 8y ago
I've asked people that question and it seems the trade off is that feeling of connection. The validation that comes from sharing moments and the happy feelings it brings you when you can brag about something. In exchange for this, people are relatively lax about their privacy. I'm sure there's also a bunch of people that want to get famous so they will absorb all the followers, likes, shares and comments they can get. I once overheard two girls talking about guys they liked at school and I shit you not, they were rating them based on how many Instagram followers they had...
Sylos 8y ago
A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a complete picture of any single scandal, so that if another scandal gets reported within a few weeks, they'll think it's still the same issue and only rate this first scandal as somewhat worse, rather than there being a second scandal, making the whole thing roughly twice as bad. And as a result, mainstream media also just doesn't report about it as much. A particularly strong example of this is Meltdown and Spectre. The news around those came on public TV where I live. Now we've discovered more and worse vulnerabilities and even for me as someone who frequently reads tech news, I pretty much had to go out of my way to get information about them.

by osrec 8y ago

Jonnerz 8y ago

Much of the world just don't care, especially young people. It's as simple as that really.

vixen99 8y ago
That's for sure. So one interesting question, what might happen that would lead them to care?

jimjimjim 8y ago

sign of the times. there are no repercussions anymore. uber, telcos, <cough>white house</cough>, facebook, airlines (beaten anybody up recently?), fifa, equifax. and it sucks.

TeMPOraL 8y ago
Were they ever? I read corporate horror stories as far back as corporations exist, and until the last ~100 years, the world was a totally fucked up mess anyway.

ledfrog 8y ago

I've asked people that question and it seems the trade off is that feeling of connection. The validation that comes from sharing moments and the happy feelings it brings you when you can brag about something. In exchange for this, people are relatively lax about their privacy. I'm sure there's also a bunch of people that want to get famous so they will absorb all the followers, likes, shares and comments they can get. I once overheard two girls talking about guys they liked at school and I shit you not, they were rating them based on how many Instagram followers they had...

Sylos 8y ago

A big problem seems to also be that mainstream audience can't really tell these scandals apart, they often don't understand the details or just don't have a complete picture of any single scandal, so that if another scandal gets reported within a few weeks, they'll think it's still the same issue and only rate this first scandal as somewhat worse, rather than there being a second scandal, making the whole thing roughly twice as bad. And as a result, mainstream media also just doesn't report about it as much. A particularly strong example of this is Meltdown and Spectre. The news around those came on public TV where I live. Now we've discovered more and worse vulnerabilities and even for me as someone who frequently reads tech news, I pretty much had to go out of my way to get information about them.