[LINK] Facebook demise???
Stephen Wilson
swilson at lockstep.com.au
Fri Dec 30 11:25:10 AEDT 2011
On 30/12/2011 9:29 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
http://techland.time.com/2011/12/05/the-beginning-of-the-end-for-facebook/?iid=tl-article-editpicks
>
> A counter-intuitive view of why Facebook may not be the darling for
> much longer. Reason: boredom and overload. In other words, the gloss
> is off.
There's disenchantment with FB, but we should expect outright rebellion
too. On top of the evident boredom (or should I say, simmering beneath
it) is the growing awareness of how ruthless Facebook is in pirating its
members' Personal Information.
Facebook exists to make money from the data and insights it has about
its members' lives. Every now and then they regret their way out of a
privacy scandal, and they fiddle with their privacy settings. But all
the while they build ever richer profiles.
The latest "innovation" is Facial Recognition which affords them X-Ray
vision into what everyone is doing, when, where and with whom. And the
ultimate insult? Facebook crowdsources the calibration of their
biometric algorithms to members, who meekly believe that tagging photols
is cool.
It's time that Facebook members awoke to this exploitation. Mark
Zuckerberg has cunningly amassed a multi billion dollar fortune on the
back of Personal Information collected with scarcely any acknowledgement
of its depth and breadth in space and time. There is a colossal
misunderstanding -- aided and abetted by his occasional mea culpas --
that the main privacy risk is inhibition, when in fact it is that
Zuckerberg reserves the right to do anything he pleases with the
encyclopedic information he has about a big slice of the world's
population.
Why on earth do people stand for it? If Governments did what Facebook
does, there would be riots.
Steve Wilson
Lockstep
http://lockstep.com.au
Lockstep Consulting provides independent specialist advice and analysis
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