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Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social
by dabbledash 8y ago
Google and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social engagement; it contributes to political polarization and the spread of disinformation, and so on. I’m not saying that those charges are right, but while the people at HN are possibly most concerned about the privacy issue the average Facebook hater has a lot of other issues with them.
And a person who hates Facebook for non-privacy reasons is likely to give them a harder time about privacy too. They may not be rational, but I think it’s pretty normal human behavior.
- mancerayder 8y agoGoogle and Facebook both have privacy issues, but Facebook seems to have some negative impacts that google doesn’t. It’s addictive; it encourages shallow social engagement; it contributes to political polarization and the spread of disinformation, and so on. Sure, all true, but perhaps that's because Facebook has to 'get engagement'? I'm no notifications addict like many of my friends. However, I'm using a Google phone, rely on Google Maps, Mail, single sign on, and a lot more. There's no FacebookMail, FacebookMaps, and so forth that's glued to operating systems like a FacedroidOS. Google has the best of all worlds, because it's in the infrastructure. It's free to spy in plain sight while Facebook is the canary (even if a very real, and totally predictable one.)