Showing posts with label facebook. Show all posts
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Monday, September 26, 2011
Huxley Was Right
No small piece of video has ever fueled the urge to punch someone continuously in the balls as this:Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
Now they want details of everything you've done in your life to date so that in the click of a button, reports can be generated of all your actions since birth.
Aside from marketing firms and intelligence agencies - Who really needs this?
Have we become this impersonal, voyeuristic and exhibitionist?
One thing I hope many appreciate before they mindlessly segue into virtual reality is LIFE. Real life, not a series of dots in the virtual realm. Facebook is on its way to publishing every moment of our lives automatically. As younger generations (and the yet to be born) grow up with this integrated right into their lives, this is truly a revolution in the destruction of privacy and the future generation's view of privacy.
Human life should be more than a series of inane little stories. It's about real interaction in the REAL world, not quickly running through every event that took place in your neighbor's life.
More info:
Viewing and interacting in things suggested to you by "friends" and search engines based on your "likes" and frequent clicks is the equivalent of friendly censorship.
Facebook Integration with an ever-growing amount of web applications means EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE will be publicly monitored.
Logging out of Facebook is not enough as Facebook cookies continue tracking your moves
Monday, May 24, 2010
Good-bye to Privacy
Read the linked article written by Tom Spring of PC World and learn about major new threats to your privacy, from social networks to advertisers to yourself.
This is a must read for anyone interested in the preservation of privacy:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196787/goodbye_to_privacy.html
This is a must read for anyone interested in the preservation of privacy:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/196787/goodbye_to_privacy.html
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Advocating Acceptance Through Naive Ignorance
A gorgeous piece of propaganda has been published over at Tech Crunch:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/ok-you-luddites-time-to-chill-on-facebook-over-privacy/
Seems the rationale of writer Michael Arrington (one of TIME Magazine's 2008 selection as the most influential people in the world) is, “We’re losing the battle to have privacy, so we may as well buy into facebook’s idea to exploit every facet of our lives.” It's also as if he is saying, "Let's label anyone who has an issue with this a "Luddite" and imply that they fear "progress.""
What exactly is progressive about subscribing to and feeding a gigantic marketing list like Facebook?
To me, this article comes just as expected. It's part of an impending slew of "journalism" offering the soft-sell to society. They're attempting to gain a growing acceptance of the loss of privacy.
In other words - It's GARBAGE PROPAGANDA! Leave comments on the original article and let them know you know! Link the story as such on Facebook to spread awareness. Let everyone know that the cronies of Facebook have the arrogance and audacity to come straight out and brag about your willing attitude to surrender your privacy.
*edit*
I also found this news posted in many places. The comment sections offer good insight from the average person.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/01/12/ok-you-luddites-time-to-chill-on-facebook-over-privacy/
Seems the rationale of writer Michael Arrington (one of TIME Magazine's 2008 selection as the most influential people in the world) is, “We’re losing the battle to have privacy, so we may as well buy into facebook’s idea to exploit every facet of our lives.” It's also as if he is saying, "Let's label anyone who has an issue with this a "Luddite" and imply that they fear "progress.""
What exactly is progressive about subscribing to and feeding a gigantic marketing list like Facebook?
To me, this article comes just as expected. It's part of an impending slew of "journalism" offering the soft-sell to society. They're attempting to gain a growing acceptance of the loss of privacy.
In other words - It's GARBAGE PROPAGANDA! Leave comments on the original article and let them know you know! Link the story as such on Facebook to spread awareness. Let everyone know that the cronies of Facebook have the arrogance and audacity to come straight out and brag about your willing attitude to surrender your privacy.
*edit*
I also found this news posted in many places. The comment sections offer good insight from the average person.
Sunday, January 10, 2010
YOU are the best Big Brother Out There
Interesting Interview with Mark Zuckerberg:
There was a really great take on this over at CNET. Here's a direct re-post:
Zuckerberg: I know that people don't want privacy
by Chris Matyszczyk
I am sure that Facebook will endure until well beyond our being twinned with the Planet Tush.
Facebook employees will, as the years go by, leave the company to enter politics more frequently. They will be elected with landslide majorities and they will be extremely popular as they will anticipate people's needs far quicker than the conventional gray-haired folks who buy ill-fitting clothes at expensive retailers and currently sit in the Senate.
How can I be so sure? Well, I just watched this video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed by a very nice man in a suit.
And in it, around the three-minute mark, he says: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."
Perhaps you weren't aware that people's comfort with sharing had become a new social norm. Perhaps you were naive enough to think that people used laptops and social-networking sites to connect very specifically with certain other people in order to share certain things. You know, in a relatively private way. Like letters that fly at the speed of light. You were mistaken.
Hark the Facebook herald: "We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are," he said.
You were, you see, mistaken to a stunning degree. In order to understand what really makes society go from a tick to a tock, you should use Facebook's policy changes as a guide. If Facebook decrees that your information ought to be frightfully public, then that merely reflects your lassitude in realizing that pretty much everyone out there wants their information to be public. Please keep up with the social norms. Society demands it.
Talking of social norms, perhaps I gave the impression that it was you, the users, who expressed to Facebook what these social norms actually are. Well, not exactly. You see Facebook simply decides what the social norms are and goes for it. How dare I say this, publicly no less, with such confidence?
Merely because Zuckerberg said it first. He declared that it was important for his company to "always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it."
Gosh, it's hard to keep up with these pesky social norms. They change so very, very quickly. Two years ago, Zuckerberg told ReadWriteWeb that privacy controls were "the vector around which Facebook operates."
I know you'll be wanting evidence for this massive recent social shift that has happened before your very lazy eyes, beneath your nose, and inside your online entrails. Zuckerberg pointed to the "rise of blogging" and "all these different services that have people sharing all this information."
You, too, can tomorrow blog or create a service and look forward to changing a social norm. Aim high. You might be able to change the social norm for, say, war or typing while walking.
But in order to change a social norm from, say, a tendency to cherish privacy to an embrace of indiscriminately public displays of information, what you'll need is 350 million users, a nice large number that might be very attractive to advertisers, as long as those advertisers can discover as much about your members as immediately as possible.
Then tell your members that you are changing the privacy rules not because you can see a golden brick road ahead of you, laden with untold lashings of lucre, but because this is quite clearly what they want. They just don't know it yet. But you do, because you have the unique ability to see to the other side of rainbows. And demand curves.
The mark of a great company lies in anticipating the needs of its customers. Facebook has clearly shown its talent in doing just that. Now, if only it could make a little more money from that talent, we'd all be happy. Wouldn't we?
There was a really great take on this over at CNET. Here's a direct re-post:
Zuckerberg: I know that people don't want privacy
by Chris Matyszczyk
I am sure that Facebook will endure until well beyond our being twinned with the Planet Tush.
Facebook employees will, as the years go by, leave the company to enter politics more frequently. They will be elected with landslide majorities and they will be extremely popular as they will anticipate people's needs far quicker than the conventional gray-haired folks who buy ill-fitting clothes at expensive retailers and currently sit in the Senate.
How can I be so sure? Well, I just watched this video of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg being interviewed by a very nice man in a suit.
And in it, around the three-minute mark, he says: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time."
Perhaps you weren't aware that people's comfort with sharing had become a new social norm. Perhaps you were naive enough to think that people used laptops and social-networking sites to connect very specifically with certain other people in order to share certain things. You know, in a relatively private way. Like letters that fly at the speed of light. You were mistaken.
Hark the Facebook herald: "We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are," he said.
You were, you see, mistaken to a stunning degree. In order to understand what really makes society go from a tick to a tock, you should use Facebook's policy changes as a guide. If Facebook decrees that your information ought to be frightfully public, then that merely reflects your lassitude in realizing that pretty much everyone out there wants their information to be public. Please keep up with the social norms. Society demands it.
Talking of social norms, perhaps I gave the impression that it was you, the users, who expressed to Facebook what these social norms actually are. Well, not exactly. You see Facebook simply decides what the social norms are and goes for it. How dare I say this, publicly no less, with such confidence?
Merely because Zuckerberg said it first. He declared that it was important for his company to "always keep a beginner's mind and what would we do if we were starting the company now and we decided that these would be the social norms now and we just went for it."
Gosh, it's hard to keep up with these pesky social norms. They change so very, very quickly. Two years ago, Zuckerberg told ReadWriteWeb that privacy controls were "the vector around which Facebook operates."
I know you'll be wanting evidence for this massive recent social shift that has happened before your very lazy eyes, beneath your nose, and inside your online entrails. Zuckerberg pointed to the "rise of blogging" and "all these different services that have people sharing all this information."
You, too, can tomorrow blog or create a service and look forward to changing a social norm. Aim high. You might be able to change the social norm for, say, war or typing while walking.
But in order to change a social norm from, say, a tendency to cherish privacy to an embrace of indiscriminately public displays of information, what you'll need is 350 million users, a nice large number that might be very attractive to advertisers, as long as those advertisers can discover as much about your members as immediately as possible.
Then tell your members that you are changing the privacy rules not because you can see a golden brick road ahead of you, laden with untold lashings of lucre, but because this is quite clearly what they want. They just don't know it yet. But you do, because you have the unique ability to see to the other side of rainbows. And demand curves.
The mark of a great company lies in anticipating the needs of its customers. Facebook has clearly shown its talent in doing just that. Now, if only it could make a little more money from that talent, we'd all be happy. Wouldn't we?
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