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I'm not sure it's valid to say Facebook can't do anything. They did take infected apps down. That's one thing. They could have an approval and monitoring proc
by fnid 17y ago
I'm not sure it's valid to say Facebook can't do anything. They did take infected apps down. That's one thing. They could have an approval and monitoring process to protect their users.
People blame Microsoft all the time for viruses and being an unstable platform, which is mostly due to bad software running on windows than it is windows itself. Sure you could say they could improve their scheduling or compartmentalization of apps, etc.
My point is that Facebook is the medium and they can do something. Apple does something with the app store.
I am biased though. I don't have a lot of sympathy for facebook or their users. I don't have a fb account and don't really care to, but that's beside the point. Facebook is the vector for the vector and they can do something and have done some things already. They could do more.
Why don't they? because any restrictions slow growth and that's all the care about. They don't care about the individual users, they care about the graph.
- axod 17y ago>> "Why don't they? because any restrictions slow growth and that's all the care about. They don't care about the individual users, they care about the graph." I think that's pretty bizarre. I seriously doubt they're purposely not removing apps that try to get the user to download executable code, in order to grow their userbase faster.
- fnid 17y agoI didn't say they purposely weren't removing apps to promote growth. I'm saying they aren't doing other things to avoid inhibiting growth. Things like a review process, monitoring, etc.