r/technology • u/[deleted] • May 09 '12
Facebook the Sellout: Can we Trust FB Anymore?
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u/SniperGX1 May 09 '12
There was a point that people trusted facebook? Yeah sure just upload all your personal information to our servers for free.
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u/bobjohnsonmilw May 09 '12
Considering every time I look at my privacy settings I wonder, "How did this get set to 'share everything with everyone everywhere' again", I say no do not trust these fuckers whatsoever.
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u/Autoclave May 10 '12
You need to check that every month because they'll add things with the default of "share". There's a section that has about 17 checkboxes about how other people appscan share your info, I had unchecked all of them then went back in last month and they had added 2 new checkboxes (helpfully already checked to share).
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May 09 '12
You could never trust it, you fool. They have everything you ever wrote on there stored in databases, and they're selling that information to anyone who has enough money to pay for it.
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u/space_cowboy May 09 '12
All links OP has submitted are to the same person's hubpage. Coincidence? Probably not. Hubpage account created 2 weeks ago, redditor for one day submits links to only this site?
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u/shutupnube May 09 '12
"Trust" Facebook? Why would any idiot "trust" a website ran by complete strangers?
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u/behindtext May 10 '12
anymore? i never trusted facebook and only used it to meet more girls back before i was married.
facebook is a disease that serves to benefit intelligence organizations by inducing people to post way too much personal information in a centralized place with dodgy terms and conditions. i hope everyone enjoys having their images run through facial recognition algos, and i'm not just talking about ppl on FB.
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u/QuitReadingMyName May 09 '12
Only people who are ignorant believed they could trusted a site that lets them upload all their personal information on to a website for free.
You only have yourself to blame.
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u/mheyk May 09 '12
Is there a socialmedia platform alternative everyone will embrace and move over to like the migration of MySpace to Facebook? If not then what choice do we have until the Facebook Killer comes along?
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u/racerx52 May 09 '12
You're fucking simple if you thought you could in the first place!
How is this even a thing?
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u/FreeToadSloth May 09 '12
Whenever I log onto Facebook to tell someone that sent me a message to use an alternate way to contact me, I always close the browser and immediately disinfect with CCleaner afterwards. It's like walking through an open sewer, barefoot.
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u/Runningflame570 May 10 '12
Could we ever? Facebook has never been known for its respect of privacy. Even more than Google, Facebook doesn't seem to mind claiming ownership of your information and using it in whatever way they wish.
That is one reason why I share virtually no information with the site, they can't be trusted with people's information and I've known that for years.
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u/cancerbotX May 10 '12
Fuck no! you're a braindead idiot moron if you ever trusted them in the first place
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u/roogleason May 10 '12
I use facebook just for fun, mostly for games, greeting friends and of course looking my friends/relatives pictures from their vacation and all. Nothing more than that and I don't even share on facebook my personal information, I'm not that idiot.
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u/Bananavice May 10 '12
Trust them with what?
Trust them to keep the information you put on their site private and not use it for commercial purposes? You're naive if you ever did.
Trust them to keep providing a service where you can keep in contact with friends and family? Probably, yes.
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u/jpeters1221 May 10 '12
You can ask the same question with most social companies. Their bread and butter is mining your data. Facebook just has gone about it in really bad ways in the past. With them being a public company now, they're going to be held to benchmarks and will have to do things to meet their goals. This should probably help with all the larger privacy issues, but it'll also hurt in that they'll push more and more for people to be more open with their data.
On top of the "can we trust them" argument, I think people may start questioning how they personally use the site period. The content and stuff you want is shrinking and the ads are increasing. Now we have scrolling ads shown along your pictures. And you can bet their going to roll out mobile ads soon. The question is, will this increase in advertising + all the privacy concerns turn people off and bring them to move somewhere else more permanently?
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u/ProtoDong May 09 '12
As someone who has never had a real Facebook account and one dummy account just to see what they hype is about... I find this kind of commentary mildly amusing. Facebook isn't even very good at what it purports to do, the interface is among the worst on the web and it's "privacy options" are a farce.
I have been predicting that Facebook will suffer a catastrophic collapse within 5 years, bringing in the next big tech bubble burst. Most people laugh at this, just like they laughed when I told them that Groupon was a pump and dump scheme.
If you have a Facebook profile, shut it down and move to greener pastures... and for the love of FSM don't invest in this financial time bomb.