Comments on: FTC Likes Facebook, Ignores You https://techcitement.com/software/ftc-likes-facebook-screws-you/ get excited Fri, 09 Dec 2011 21:14:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Dani https://techcitement.com/software/ftc-likes-facebook-screws-you/#comment-1128 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:48:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=6225#comment-1128 Tom, part of what bothers is me is that I willingly signed up for some information sharing, much like with Google, but Facebook lied. They made certain privacy promises which sounded empty (“We will not seel your data!”), but they still made those promises and then broke them (“Oh, we totally sell you data to make money, sorry!”). They said apps were verified when there was no verification process. That gave people faith in companies like Zynga. I walk this line between thinking big corporations are evil and understanding how bureaucracies work (especially red tape). But there’s not excuse for what Zuckerberg did. If this were an individual instead of a site, you’d avoid that person, possibly get a restraining order against him/her.
That being said, I am much more bothered by the FTC’s handling of this than by what Facebook has done, most of which I knew already. It does not bode well for the general future, and I am currently assessing how to truly pull back on my Facebook use and generally manage my online data.

]]> By: Tom Wyrick https://techcitement.com/software/ftc-likes-facebook-screws-you/#comment-1127 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:15:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=6225#comment-1127 I think you can get away with a lot of abuses when your website is “top dog” in its genre. Look how many people constantly complain about problems using eBay, yet it remains the #1 place to buy and sell on the internet. Look how popular payment processing via PayPal is, despite all the complaints levied against it. At some point, these sites seem to achieve a “critical mass” of regular users that becomes a huge benefit or positive in and of itself, no matter how poorly people view aspects of the site’s operation.

I guess I’ve always used Facebook with the expectation that anything and everything I post is logged indefinitely and potentially resold or studied as part of “data mining” operations. The site is, after all, free of charge to use (which wasn’t the case back in the day when all such sites were of the classmates.com type, with monthly fees). I don’t think there’s any way simple ad banner advertising on there can cover their infrastructure, bandwidth usage and labor expenses — so they’ve got to get it from somewhere.

]]> By: Marsha F. Liebert https://techcitement.com/software/ftc-likes-facebook-screws-you/#comment-1126 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 16:59:00 +0000 http://techcitement.com/?p=6225#comment-1126 Awesome Post Dani!!

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