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What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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The new york times seems to have a personal agenda against facebook. Their reporting is unfair and wrong at best.

Wouldn't it be easy for you to post an example of the article being wrong, then? Otherwise it looks like you have a personal agenda against the new york times.

how can some guy saying "i don't like facebook" be proven "wrong" ?

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Facebook as a website can go the way of MySpace. But Facebook as a company will probably not. The subject is touched a bit toward the end of the article but the reality is this: Facebook has reached a critical mass, as a company, that MySpace never did. As such, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up and make sure that they have a dominant position in the social network market. Unl…

What are examples of a big mistake, in your eyes?

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Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

"Can't". I do not think that word means what you think it means. Of course they can, both technically and legally. Ethical sketchiness has never been a consideration for giant corporations before, why should it be now?

You are not Facebook's customer. You are their product. You have no expectation of privacy for anything you post to Facebook, whether or not it's "private".

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Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

Do you think the solution is to move to another service who may or may not abuse by his position in the future?

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post #27
post #25

Whatever vendetta the nytimes has with facebook has drawn too far too long. yawn

I'm starting to suspect they are trying to extort better ad prices from Facebook. This won't stop until they cave. I hope they don't cave. The press already has enough power as it is.

What does “better ad prices” mean? The NYT doesn’t sell ads to or from Facebook in any significant amount.

This is a conspiracy theory that fails even the “theory” part.

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post #73

Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

"Can't". I do not think that word means what you think it means. Of course they can, both technically and legally. Ethical sketchiness has never been a consideration for giant corporations before, why should it be now? You are not Facebook's customer. You are their product. You have no expectation of privacy for anything you post to Facebook, whether or not it's "private".

"Can't" there was presumably meant as an ethical or moral statement, or as an imperative, not as a description of possibility.

In the same way that "must" can either mean that something is inevitable, or mean that it is imperative.

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post #73

Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

"Can't". I do not think that word means what you think it means. Of course they can, both technically and legally. Ethical sketchiness has never been a consideration for giant corporations before, why should it be now? You are not Facebook's customer. You are their product. You have no expectation of privacy for anything you post to Facebook, whether or not it's "private".

I'm not sure why this post is getting down-voted aside from people not liking what it says (perhaps how it says it?). Nothing it stated was factually inaccurate or unjustified.

You really aren't Facebook's customer - no money is exchanged for services rendered.

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post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Good. The press should have more power than corporations. Especially corporations with the moral standing of Facebook.

The NYT is a corporation. A corporation who lied about the WMD, garnering support for a war which caused death and endless suffering to millions of people.

That particular episode is old enough to have graduated high school now. The editor and reporter responsible were also fired, and it wasn’t so much that the reporter “lied”, let alone the paper, but that they were lied to by the administration at a time where there was still a general assumption that even Republican officials would not actually blatantly lie to the American public.

So update your talking points. (yawn)

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Honestly, I hope they do! Simply put, the company is ethically bankrupt and deserve to be made an example of how not to run a social network. You can't go selling peoples private messages to Netflix (the sheer audacity of that just blows my mind!). You can't allow peoples private data to be sold to data analytics firms that are trying to sway elections. Facebook is built on the belief that people don't need privacy a…

Ahh yes the very traditional method of charging for extended emotions... Better then facebook I suppose.
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