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Facebook is a "Public Square"? Please. Call a spade a spade... it is a "Walled Garden". If you don't like how the roses are starting to smell, well, step out
by throw7 7y ago
Facebook is a "Public Square"? Please. Call a spade a spade... it is a "Walled Garden". If you don't like how the roses are starting to smell, well, step outside the gates, no one is keeping you in:
https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674 https://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674
- supercanuck 7y agoFacebook is tracking you online, even if you don't have an account https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-have-account-888699 https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-d...
- sushisushisushi 7y agoStepping outside the walled garden is complicated when the walled garden constitutes 70% of the market share in an industry with negligible competition.
- vokep 7y agoThe entire town is deciding to hang out in this walled garden. If I want to go to the effective town square, currently it resides within facebook's walled garden. Personally, I just don't go, and so I miss out on the benefit I would get, but that is the price to pay at the moment.
- mancerayder 7y agoIt's a place where your family is, it's an OAuth provider depended upon by a bunch of apps, and it's hella popular as a contact page for individuals as well as businesses. "If you don't like it, leave." is more like a religious mantra than a serious normative argument at this point. Did we mention the trackers?
- rchaud 7y agoWriters for broadsheet newspapers always seem to draw parallels with ye olde timey things that even their oldest readers probably haven't seen take place in decades. That being said, the "public squares" in many big cities are almost exclusively the domain of scammers, pickpockets and the insane. So maybe the parallel does make sense.