well, as I mentioned, my issue is not with the typical privacy concerns that people complain about regarding Facebook--the info that you enter, that they use (anonymously, I should add--despite what many of these critics seem to understand) to share with their partners and collect marketing data, but Zuckerburg's insistence that FB should be integrated into your entire life, in such a way that you really can't escape it.
It's his site. It's his perogative to make it more popular and widely used - the more he can get his website's hooks deeply into our lives, the better his long term prospects are. I have no issue with this as I'd do the exact same.
I mentioned watching a movie and having people find you when you want to chill and ignore all that noise. That is what annoys me--when Facebook starts to find you no matter where you are.
Log out when you're not actively using Facebook and it'll be fine. One click solution.
yes, you can to a certain degree choose what you want to use and include, but as I've read from the mouth himself, this is going to be less and less of an option. If he wants FB to grow the way he wants it to, he simply has to remove many of these increased privacy options. There is no getting away from that for FB to grow along its current model.
Again, his perogative, and anyone acting in the best interests of his company would do the same. If users don't like it, they'll vote with their virtual feet. Friendster and Myspace are proof enough that people only have so much tolerance for being annoyed with a website.
That, and again the issue that people have managed to confuse this kind of communication with actual socialization. It absolutely is not the same. People have forgotten how to talk to each other like normal humans, it seems. very sad.
(not simply the fault of Facebook, of course; but certainly a big contributor)
Uh, no. Of course everyone still knows how to talk to each other - they're not plugging themselves into the Matrix and living life on Facebook in a bodybuilder's body, they're at worst posting to-the-minute updates about inconsequential things via their mobile phone or going to concerts or clubs and snapping hundreds of photos for the sake of showing their Facebook friends that they go out and do interesting things.
Who cares? If that's what they want to spend their time doing, let them. With or without Facebook they'd still be doing mindless garbage. As long as they're happy I don't know why anyone should be concerned.
...and Zuckerberg really is a complete douche. I don't like the guy and I find his interpretation of culture to be both thin and inconsequential. This is the foundation of the product, so I'm just not interested in supporting it. :\
So don't support it. But don't lord your equally inconsequential views over the rest of us.
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