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Unfortunately, a good majority of Facebook Users still barely know what that is, or have never heard of it.

by ridgewell 8y ago

starbugs 8y ago
Guess then we'll have to wait for the next (bigger) "breach" of "trust" :)
- gremlinsinc 8y ago
  Younger generations have grown up on fb and youtube...everything they do--they share...sadly. They don't care about 'trust' of their data, they don't seem to care about privacy at all, because they've never known privacy, it's a foreign concept to them...
  - starbugs 8y ago
    I anticipate this will be a self-correcting problem eventually. If it's not for large-scale political effects that evolve as a consequence of reckless evasion of privacy, then it might be events on a small scale. Maybe your current girlfriend happens to be the ex of some other guy that uses the information you provided to stalk you. This kind of event happens on a different time scale than the instant gratification scheme that made certain social media platforms so successful. Nonetheless their negative impact is orders of magnitude higher than all of those small positive impacts combined so that they eventually outweigh them. It's a matter of time.
    - gremlinsinc 8y ago
      I'd hope it gets corrected... But it could be a slippery slope with more and more privacy protections and freedoms taken away... I mean you give up freedom it becomes easier to give up more especially when groups are involved... Hopefully those who with in tech and code the crap can enforce some ethics though.
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  - ummonk 8y ago
    Well, the youngest generation moved off FB and Snapchat, and [the appearance of] privacy seems to have been a factor there. Of course, I don't see how decentralization helps with privacy though - instead of trusting just one vendor, you end up trusting several vendors (either the service providers in the case of federation, or the app writers in the case of full decentralization) assuming people you communicate with are using a varied set of vendors (i.e. you don't end up with a dominant vendor like gmail).

Unfortunately, a good majority of Facebook Users still barely know what that is, or have never heard of it.

starbugs 8y ago

Guess then we'll have to wait for the next (bigger) "breach" of "trust" :)

gremlinsinc 8y ago
Younger generations have grown up on fb and youtube...everything they do--they share...sadly. They don't care about 'trust' of their data, they don't seem to care about privacy at all, because they've never known privacy, it's a foreign concept to them...
- starbugs 8y ago
  I anticipate this will be a self-correcting problem eventually. If it's not for large-scale political effects that evolve as a consequence of reckless evasion of privacy, then it might be events on a small scale. Maybe your current girlfriend happens to be the ex of some other guy that uses the information you provided to stalk you. This kind of event happens on a different time scale than the instant gratification scheme that made certain social media platforms so successful. Nonetheless their negative impact is orders of magnitude higher than all of those small positive impacts combined so that they eventually outweigh them. It's a matter of time.
  - gremlinsinc 8y ago
    I'd hope it gets corrected... But it could be a slippery slope with more and more privacy protections and freedoms taken away... I mean you give up freedom it becomes easier to give up more especially when groups are involved... Hopefully those who with in tech and code the crap can enforce some ethics though.
- deleted 8y ago
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- ummonk 8y ago
  Well, the youngest generation moved off FB and Snapchat, and [the appearance of] privacy seems to have been a factor there. Of course, I don't see how decentralization helps with privacy though - instead of trusting just one vendor, you end up trusting several vendors (either the service providers in the case of federation, or the app writers in the case of full decentralization) assuming people you communicate with are using a varied set of vendors (i.e. you don't end up with a dominant vendor like gmail).