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It's no secret: Facebook's allure is its privacy
- mynameishere 19y agoOh. I seriously thought that its allure was a mix of voyeurism and exhibitionism.
- danw 19y agoAnd to think I use it just because all my friends are on there..
- snorkel 19y agoThis is a joke, right? Facebook encourages users to register accounts using their real name and then volunteer personal information with reckless abandon. But users need not worry because they can check a little box that says "shh! don't tell anyone!" but they didn't read the mouse print on the terms of service page that says Facebook can share it with whoever they want. If George Orwell only knew it would be this easy.
- dcurtis 19y agoEven if you add all of that information, it's still private until you connect/friend someone. It maintains a walled garden to only people who are in your social arena (school, college, work, area), and that is what this guy is suggesting as the appeal of Facebook. I agree.
- nickb 19y agoAhem, what about this Mr Reuters guy? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34540 It's as if his whole article is a sarcasm piece.
- rms 19y agoFacebook's secret is that there is no spam. MySpace is completely usually because of the spambots but Facebook has some kind of brilliant secret algorithm for keeping the network spam free.
- rms 19y agocompletely _unusable_, not usually...
- johnarama 19y agoI've been reluctant to check out Facebook as me and millions of others have already gone through the trouble of getting a MySpace page up...that being said, private networks are very popular. File-sharing is no exception, and Shalsoft's GigaTribe, http://www.gigatribe.com http://www.gigatribe.com , is a rapidly growing model for the swapping of large files between a private, encrypted environment of friends...