Re:Facebook's Privacy Dinosaur Wants to Make Sure You're Not...
by bertil on Tuesday March 25, 2014 @06:38PM
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> it’s in Facebook’s interest to get us all to overshare
Could that absurd legend get buried already? It’s their obvious, direct commercial interest to keep your private information reserved for themselves, to improve proprietary targeting. The over-sharing might be Zuckerberg’s openness ideology against his company commercial interest.
> just imagine how worthless Yelp would be if a majority of its users turned their reviews to “private” or “friends-only.”
Well, I don't know about Yelp, but my Facebook NewsFeed has mainly friends’ updates. There are some advertising, but I doubt the advertisers feel their privacy violated by those.
Could that absurd legend get buried already? It’s their obvious, direct commercial interest to keep your private information reserved for themselves, to improve proprietary targeting. The over-sharing might be Zuckerberg’s openness ideology against his company commercial interest.
> just imagine how worthless Yelp would be if a majority of its users turned their reviews to “private” or “friends-only.”
Well, I don't know about Yelp, but my Facebook NewsFeed has mainly friends’ updates. There are some advertising, but I doubt the advertisers feel their privacy violated by those.