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It is in a way. However it is much harder to aggregate all these pictures and data when you need to scrape everybody's personal blogs. Facebook makes it very ea
by jd007 13y ago
It is in a way. However it is much harder to aggregate all these pictures and data when you need to scrape everybody's personal blogs. Facebook makes it very easy to gather and use this data (they even make you organize it for them by putting photos into different collections). Fundamentally though there is no difference between posting it on your blog vs Facebook.
- rtpg 13y agoI can see how the searching can be an issue, but if someone is motivated enough, they can just use Google right? I dunno, I have issues with facebook but I actually like how photos and tagging automatically fill my timeline so I don't have to actually write to my family. Besides, most of the things you (if you were the NSA) could find through Facebook could almost trivially be found through looking through the guy's e-mail, or other sources. Nobody thinks Facebook to be private anyways, since its main purpose is for stuff to be published (to friends, but considering I have 300 on FB, it might as well be public)
- jd007 13y agoIt's always a balance between the value you get out of FB vs your privacy concerns. For most people, they value the features of FB (e.g. photo tagging) more than they value their own privacy, so they continue to share and use FB. For Stallman obviously the opposite is true.
- scholia 13y agoAgreed. In fact, I have no control over photos of me that anyone can post anywhere on the web, where Google indexes them and makes them searchable. At least with Facebook I can untag them and in some cases get them removed....