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Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

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Re: Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

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It amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?

Re: Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

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post #3

It amazes me that people are so willing to give these "services" so much access to their lives. It creeped me out when facebook used to ask me what I thought about a place I had been to. This is a whole new level of creepy, why don't people care?

It's not really a new level. People have been doing it with Last.fm since before Facebook existed.

Re: Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

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Beside the privacy concerns, it's sad that most people feel the need to share every little detail of their life with everyone, 24/7. What's the point?

Branding (signalling). Same reason people post pictures of their desserts with the restaurant's name, announce party affiliation, and tell you about a band you have never heard.

Re: Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV

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"Can be turned off at any time" means "will never be turned off by 99.99% of our users".

"...it starts currently as opt-in". Not a massive fan of that "currently".

I don't own a smartphone and deleted my FB account years ago, but this still makes me squirm.

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