Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
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Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#2This was, of course, 100% predictable. Facebook has never given even a fractional, hypothetical shit about privacy, except in so far as they are absolutely compelled to by their users, which is rare. They certainly have shown little evidence that they have ever thought seriously about the deeper implications and privacy impact of any features they have rolled out.
Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#3I see Facebook as a walled garden, just as AOL was, and I have often looked forward to a day when people shared their updates in an open and non proprietary format.
This just points out that utopia has its downsides - even without a walled garden we would share this stuff - and the graph would still exist. Facebook is crap at privacy but frankly it's just sharing what we want to share (with our friends)
I think Scott McNeally was horribly right - privacy is gone
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Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#5I had a long, snarky comment about how no sane person would do X, Y, and Z on their public profile.
But then I realized graph search shows you to friends of friends. This is a potential shitstorm and I'm not sure I value my facebook account enough to be in it.
Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#6Well ... if they are male chances of liking porn and guns are so high that you shouldn't bother searching.
And in the last 10 years the notion that everybody is a freak in his numerous personal ways began to take hold anmog the populace. But the institutions became more easily offended and prude.
But I suppose with the inevitable dieout of the current gen of employers the next just won't bother with searching ... it will be like - why bother - I will find crap for everyone.
Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#7How would Facebook know who likes porn (except assuming everybody likes porn, obviously)? Those who say so on their Facebook profile are presumably not very concerned about that information leaking out?
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#8I don't want to sound mean, but if people aren't smart enough to keep their lives out of Facebook, then let them get burned.
It's not rocket science. I've had a Facebook account for years and there is nothing - absolutely NOTHING -on my Facebook account that I would worry about an employer seeing. That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public, in broad daylight. I will never understand why some people can't get this through their heads.
Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#9I don't want to sound mean, but if people aren't smart enough to keep their lives out of Facebook, then let them get burned. It's not rocket science. I've had a Facebook account for years and there is nothing - absolutely NOTHING -on my Facebook account that I would worry about an employer seeing. That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public, in broad daylight. I w…
Why do you think it's really anything to with being intelligent or not?
When you're using Facebook it feels like a social situation, so you behave as you would with your friends.
The internet's weird because parts of it feel part of your private life, parts your professional.
If you act as a normal human being with a normal social brain and a normal understanding of computers, which, not being mean, you are probably not because you're using HN, it's very easy to get caught like this.
Re: Facebook Graph Search: Marketing Opportunities and a Potential Privacy Nightmare
#10I don't want to sound mean, but if people aren't smart enough to keep their lives out of Facebook, then let them get burned. It's not rocket science. I've had a Facebook account for years and there is nothing - absolutely NOTHING -on my Facebook account that I would worry about an employer seeing. That means no political views, no off-color humor, NOTHING that I would not say or post in public, in broad daylight. I w…
People tend to learn things the hard way. I feel that if I were to be myself on facebook, it would disservice me down the road immensely. Because I cannot be myself on facebook, any goal I may have has to be cast through an obfuscation process to strip out anything that may cause problems gaining foreign work visas, jobs anywhere, any political process that I may want to engage in to bring positive change, etc etc etc etc etc... Because I cannot be myself on facebook, it is a logical conclusion (for me) that I should not have a facebook account. So I don't. I call friends on the phone and use email, and the smaller set of more intimate friendships that I maintain are deeply satisfying and efficient.