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I was thinking the same. What is is that klout does here, that is wrong? If the post is public on Facebook, what can you do about it?

• dfxm12 15y ago
  What the author says is wrong is the fact that you can't opt-out of this service, and that it is too difficult to determine what is and isn't publicly available on social networking sites. The author has a point, but he's just going in the wrong direction (and should be focusing more on twitter and Facebook and less on Klout). He should be arguing in favor of more transparent privacy options, opt-in instead of opt-out by default, and more secure defaults in social networking rather than saying someone is doing something wrong with publicly available info.
  • jamesbritt 15y ago
    The author has a point, but he's just going in the wrong direction (and should be focusing more on twitter and Facebook and less on Klout). He should be holding up Klout and saying, "See, this is what's wrong with Facebook." But this seems to be a hard message to convey. People want to like and use Facebook, and would rather blame a site like Klout than face the truth about what liking and using Facebook actually means. To me it's like walking down the street naked and then complaining about how cameras work because people are able to take pictures. Facebook + time = sadness.