Comments on: Is Facebook unethical, clueless or unlucky?

By: Tobler Law

Tobler Law — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 15:05:34 +0000

Thanks for the post! Could I say that it is all three all at the same time?

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:24:24 +0000

You people saying others are dumb…are just dumb. You say your settings were the same as before, private.. really?? Go check photo settings, see if THEY are the same, most likely you will find they are set to “everyone”… who is dumb now?

By: MickMaSH

MickMaSH — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:32:30 +0000

1. Is Facebook clueless, unethical or just unlucky? Why?:

yes, they are unethical, and i believe they are unlucky: reason being they just made this move, and it is being brought up. In black and white, they have made a move that they cannot take back. If some wants to complain, file, or flat out leave facebook, they can. I personally left Facebookdue to the fact that I did not approve of the new terms alont with their CONSTANT “updates”. One day, my layout looks simple and easy, the next, NOT SO EASY. I remember when facebook started out only being a dating/social group for adults and college students. The day I signed on with Facebook, was the day I was accepted into my college. What happened, they created a section/network for high schoolers within a month. I was livid. But, i’ve been facebook free for some 5 months now, and i love it!!! I now have more time for friends and family and actually see who my friends really are, because i hang out with them in person, not over the internet and not over facebook.

2. Will Facebook’s latest behavior result in more lawsuits and/or
industry regulation?

I sure as hope it will, and if it doesn’t I pray there is someone braver than me to step up to facebook in a courtroom and wag their finger at them. Letting facebook know, they did wrong, they did the people wrong, and they will pay with their very wallets, and maybe even some time.

3. Do you trust Facebook with your information?

Not anymore, they lost their chances with me months ago when they couldn’t make up their minds on how they wanted facebook to run/look/and feel. Goodbye Facebook. See you in hell.

By: Darren

Darren — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 08:15:09 +0000

I spend my days trying to convince real estate people that
the internet is a safe place to hang their hats. Thanks to
the FB my job just got harder!

By: zztopsss

zztopsss — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:17:31 +0000

Okay….
I just think this is the funnies thing, ranting and raving about Facebook.
Yes, so they “screwed up”. Who cares if they “STOLE” from twitter, what
social networking site doesn’t try and look like or better then thier competition?

Secondly, I did my privacy thing when it popped up, nothing was changed at all.
All my settings we infact the same as when I started up facebook.

I think everyone is just blowing this way out of proportion.

But the main thing here is…
IF your dumb enough to write anything personal or private only, thats your own damn fault.
I will not write personal stuff about me no matter how safe i think my privacy is on the site.
I will not do it, and I think if other people were smart enough they wouldnt either, but now
they have an excuse to be stupid because OHH FB is putting my personal info out..
Well its your fault your wrote personal stuff in the first place, GET OVER IT!

THat’s just my opinion though. Everyone has different opinions, I just think everyone
is overreating.

By: richjm

richjm — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 12:13:28 +0000

Thanks for this excellent post, Jason.
Good on you for speaking so honestly too.
My girlfriend is a teacher and had taken a lot of care to keep her profile private.
Once Facebook made those changes, pupils were able to see all her info and pictures.

If you make users feel like assets not people, they leave. Simple.

By: Yunechka

Yunechka — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 08:27:17 +0000

You’ve gotta be kidding. Oh, poor users.
Why don’t they start reading what they accept?
I say if you are such an idiot to click through THIS, you totally deserve to have all your private info exposed.

I don’t support FB on this, all right. But let’s just not be clueless.

By: Doug Haslam » Blog Archive » Social Media Top 5: The Dearth of Privacy

Doug Haslam » Blog Archive » Social Media Top 5: The Dearth of Privacy — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 01:44:09 +0000

[...] may have exposed your previously private content to the world– and to Google. I’ll let Jason Calacanis tell Facebook off for screwing this up. My take? I never pay attention to the privacy controls, though I think you [...]

By: Facebook’s Privacy Move Violates Contract With Users « Shayn Almeida's Blogging the Beats

Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:43:12 +0000

[...] think it is unethical and I agree with the concern that Jason Calacanis raises about how this will affect other Internet companies. “Facebook’s reckless behavior [...]

By: Rob Sellen

Rob Sellen — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:42:54 +0000

Interesting this whole shambles they created, yet
they already had the set up in place to avoid it
and rival twitter.

I posted about it and linked to this post here too.

Be interested to know what you think.
http://robsellen.com/2009/12/facebook-screwed-up-what-they-should.html

Rob