Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.

Post by netcan » Tue, May 04, 2010, 7:36 AM UTC

codexon wrote: post #140

netcan wrote: post #138

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No it isn't analogous to that at all. You want to make some sort create some sort of moral equivalence between literally selling user data and changing user privacy defaults. Maybe there is some moral equivalent, but I don't think so. In any case, the way you made your case is by lying. An anti-US activist might want to claim a moral equivalence between the casualties of the Iraq war and mass executions. But, to say…

You are really stretching it if you are trying to say Facebook isn't trying to exploit private data to the fullest extent possible. A more apt analogy using your theme would be this: Saddam Hussein didn't kill anyone, his soldiers did. Only a pedant would be worried about the literal meaning without looking at the big picture.

Did I say that?

Post by davi » Wed, May 12, 2010, 6:54 PM UTC

davi wrote: post #28

pg wrote: post #7

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What features should it have? (Or not have?)

1: I want ACLs meet Web. I want to publish personal stuff to close friends & family, professional stuff to colleagues, and random miscellany to the world, all via the same tool. I want to be able to customize the layout of my content depending on the audience. 2: I want this without my friends and family having to learn about OpenID or having to sign up for a new account somewhere. (I don't know how to do this, I am…

note to self (post is too old to edit): apparently Facebook does have a lists capability: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1341787, http://www.facebook.com/help/?page=768

Re: Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook.

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