UrieHusky said:
First of all I'm not shocked about this since I saw the video when he first announced it long ago =P I was merely asking for peoples opinions on the new layout while also expressing my own opinion on the matter.
Secondly you have a very good point don't get me wrong, anybody who looks into facebook beyond just using it can see just how messed up it is, but we keep using it because it's convenient at the end of the day.
That being said this change might be enough of an inconvenience to make it not worth having an account any more, at least for me.
I personally don't use my real name on FB or upload any updates I wouldn't want a stranger to see, but I know a lot who do and that's where the problem lies.
So yeah, my concerns about privacy are more about the bigger picture, rather than my own privacy.
Well, even if we ignore the hilarious rape of privacy that goes on at Facebook HQ (all while they cling to their own privacy and freak out if anything is leaked), as far as inconvenience goes their product has continually been worsened. That is to say, every new update they do further inconveniences the user in order to make it easier for the advertisers to data mine. All of these things which the majority hate, but because the user has grown so accustomed to using Facebook, the majority accept.
You just have to ask yourself if there ever will be a 'last straw', because so far no one gives a damn about their privacy being ripped off wholesale by a guy who thinks it's hilarious that people trust him.
As far as your own personal privacy goes, unless everyone you know references you by your fake name, your data has already been leaked. Hell, Facebook's been teasing at using secondhand data like that to create accounts
for people so it'd be "easier" for them to join.
So, y'know, instead of people continuing to use IM, e-mail, texting, phone calls, in-game services, steam, and so on, people started using Facebook. Now, people can't figure out how to survive without it. All I can do is laugh, because Facebook has never,
ever looked like an appealing service to me, and it continues to shit on its users while they stand there with a tiny umbrella wondering how much shit they can take.
I dunno if I should feel saddened or not by that.
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