Comments on: Coffee Talk: It’s Tin Foil Hat Time!

By: Coffee Talk: Likes, Not Links! « Joe Osborne: Freelance Gaming & Tech Journalist

Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:49:41 +0000

[...] Beyond posting it to your wall, “Liking” something will contribute to a greater collection of information based on what you browse while logged in to your Facebook account. Using this information, Facebook could contribute to an organically social web where simply clicking a button while browsing will share your interests and network content better than ever. Not to mention this information might be beneficial to content publishers looking for more tangible metrics with which to rate their offerings (before you ask, we’ve already seen my thoughts on Facebook’s approach to privacy). [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:48:28 +0000

I am really struggling with this whole thing. If you honestly think about it people are literally being conditioned to this type of almost complete transparency. It’s a bit disturbing how willing people are now with their information and their now so-called “private life.” I think the ramifications of this are going to hit in about 12 or 15 years when the current generation finally understands you can’t delete anything from the internet. Imagine trying to be self righteous to your own children and having them dig up enough dirt on to take away almost any shred of that so called righteousness after stumbling upon some pics from a college party. With facial recognition and some of the new technologies that are coming up where they can even match writing patterns to individuals some president hopeful is going to rue that flame war he had over the size of Eliza Dusku’s breasts.

By: mike

mike — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:09:37 +0000

Honestly the reason I joined Facebook was Privacy. Now I feel as though we have none.
Just the other day I went to request someone and was able to see everything on their profile, and it made me think what if the same is happening on my page as well. I think Facebook needs to go back to it’s roots and keep privacy as it was.