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Who cares? Facebook is a generic company. Google is a generic company. If they spy on each, smash each other, etc, it changes nothing. Neither for you nor for y

Who cares? Facebook is a generic company. Google is a generic company. If they spy on each, smash each other, etc, it changes nothing. Neither for you nor for your startup or anything. Personifying these companies and then writing gossip stories about them is turning what should be real business into some kind of pseudo-fashion magazine. Just as little as I care for Snookie kissing JWoww, do I care about Facebook spying on google. The impact of this is minimally negligible in the world of real business, and something like this is just pointless gossip.

barrkel 15y ago
Goodwill and brand have value, and public opinion affects laws that get written. The very fact that Facebook was doing this means perception matters. It's not like FB and Google are making money from artificial drama, so I think your analogy is specious.
AlexC04 15y ago
Honestly, I'm shocked my the downvotes being levied against all of these "who cares" type posts. How much face is really being lost by Facebook? The audience of Facebook users that will read about the "negative PR campaign" will be infantesimally small (compared to their near 500 million accounts). Then compare that infantesimally small number of users to the percentage who didn't already know that Facebook was dodgy as hell. The relative impact of this discovery, while interesting, makes no difference in anything (save as being direct proof of Facebook's "Be Evil" corporate policy). Anyways. I'm happy to take it on the chin in terms of downvotes here too, but the way I see it there's nothing here that will impact anything.
- tonfa 15y ago
  Note that at least in France, this made the front page on the website of all major newspaper (Le Monde, Liberation, etc.). It's probably the same in many european country where Facebook is sometimes struggling to keep a clean image.
  - AlexC04 15y ago
    Look at me and my Ethnocentricity! How true that there are other cultures where these services are still trying to get traction and expose's like this one can have an actual impact. Thanks for pointing that out :)

barrkel 15y ago

Goodwill and brand have value, and public opinion affects laws that get written. The very fact that Facebook was doing this means perception matters. It's not like FB and Google are making money from artificial drama, so I think your analogy is specious.

AlexC04 15y ago

Honestly, I'm shocked my the downvotes being levied against all of these "who cares" type posts. How much face is really being lost by Facebook? The audience of Facebook users that will read about the "negative PR campaign" will be infantesimally small (compared to their near 500 million accounts). Then compare that infantesimally small number of users to the percentage who didn't already know that Facebook was dodgy as hell. The relative impact of this discovery, while interesting, makes no difference in anything (save as being direct proof of Facebook's "Be Evil" corporate policy). Anyways. I'm happy to take it on the chin in terms of downvotes here too, but the way I see it there's nothing here that will impact anything.

tonfa 15y ago
Note that at least in France, this made the front page on the website of all major newspaper (Le Monde, Liberation, etc.). It's probably the same in many european country where Facebook is sometimes struggling to keep a clean image.
- AlexC04 15y ago
  Look at me and my Ethnocentricity! How true that there are other cultures where these services are still trying to get traction and expose's like this one can have an actual impact. Thanks for pointing that out :)