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Yes it is true for the Internet in general. But Facebook is a bit special in that you can easily search for a person by name and have all photographs of him/her
by jd007 13y ago
Yes it is true for the Internet in general. But Facebook is a bit special in that you can easily search for a person by name and have all photographs of him/her in one big organized pile, which is not possible on the Internet in general.
- randomdata 13y agoOnly the people of Facebook, or external entities who are explicitly granted permission, can perform that search though. It's not like I can just hop on Facebook and find all the picture of you, unless you have already permitted me to. If you are an entity like the aforementioned NSA, searching the entire Internet for your photo isn't really any more challenging than using Facebook. The computing resources necessary are considerably larger, but that is a relatively small barrier.
- schoen 13y agoI see at least two ways that having data in Facebook has the potential to help governments learn more about people: things (relationships, events, biographical data) are pre-structured in a single clear ontology, and Facebook has direct access to all of the facts in the system. If we imagine a more decentralized system, people might well still adopt a single ontology for events and relationships, but much "private" information might actually never be revealed to third parties, as opposed to disclosing all of it to Facebook and asking Facebook to limit whom they show it to.
- S4M 13y agoWell, there is the case of that douchebag who was running isanyoneup - this was on HN recently - that is a counter example. I could take pictures of you and associate them with your name so google would link to them when someone looks for you. I agree that it's much easier through facebook, though.
- tedunangst 13y agoIt's only a matter of time until somebody comes along and lets you search for pictures on the internet in general.