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"But as Facebook makes it more difficult for users to maintain privacy, its co-founder is taking drastic measures to protect his own. Ironic timing, isn't it?"

"But as Facebook makes it more difficult for users to maintain privacy, its co-founder is taking drastic measures to protect his own. Ironic timing, isn't it?" Doesn't it seem like we're conflating 2 really different definitions of privacy here? One being online, on facebook, and the other offline, at home. This doesn't seem ironic at all, we're talking about one person's decision to do something that he thinks will make his life better vs. a corporation's decision to try and make more money. (I'm in no way defending Facebook here, just seems silly to think these 2 things are at all really related. It's like saying Ronald McDonald at a vegetable and it's ironic McDonalds just introduced a triple giant bacon burger or something)

selmnoo 13y ago
I see what you're getting at, and I kind of agree, but the comparison isn't altogether wrong, it's just a little stretched. Anyway, we should really make something out of the frustration we feel over getting our privacy rights trampled upon by the likes of Facebook. What can we do to bring it down? Make privacy-oriented alternative networking sites? Maybe ones that operate on a pay-model, so there isn't a grotesque incentive to violate basic rights? Or maybe tell Facebook to buckle down and change direction in favor of the common user's interests?
oscargrouch 13y ago
Yeah the logic behind it its kind of flawed and are trying to sensacionalize over the issue.. But the two things together can make us think about the privacy issue.. the thing is, we all need privacy, and need to have control of it.. thats what we value in real life.. In the virtual life front we dont have that sort of control, we need to obey whatever they think we should do.. we dont have the control.. that is the irony when we compare how much we can control privacy in real life vs. in virtual life.. and in the virtual case; who really controls it, is a corporation.. they dont allow us to control our own privacy.. Once you adopt their social networks its not harsh or ilusory to say they control us more than we think

selmnoo 13y ago

I see what you're getting at, and I kind of agree, but the comparison isn't altogether wrong, it's just a little stretched. Anyway, we should really make something out of the frustration we feel over getting our privacy rights trampled upon by the likes of Facebook. What can we do to bring it down? Make privacy-oriented alternative networking sites? Maybe ones that operate on a pay-model, so there isn't a grotesque incentive to violate basic rights? Or maybe tell Facebook to buckle down and change direction in favor of the common user's interests?

oscargrouch 13y ago

Yeah the logic behind it its kind of flawed and are trying to sensacionalize over the issue.. But the two things together can make us think about the privacy issue.. the thing is, we all need privacy, and need to have control of it.. thats what we value in real life.. In the virtual life front we dont have that sort of control, we need to obey whatever they think we should do.. we dont have the control.. that is the irony when we compare how much we can control privacy in real life vs. in virtual life.. and in the virtual case; who really controls it, is a corporation.. they dont allow us to control our own privacy.. Once you adopt their social networks its not harsh or ilusory to say they control us more than we think