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What Should We Say On Stage At The Webby's?
help the Google+ team craft a 5 word acceptance speech
We're so thankful to everyone who voted for us for the People's Voice award for Best Social Network at The Webby Awards! Acceptance speeches at the Webbys are limited to only 5 words, and we'd love it if our speech was "written" by one of you all. We'll pick our favorite pithy, witty, creative suggestion from the comments before the awards show on May 21 in NYC, and make sure to thank our winner here. What do you think we should say onstage?
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"We would like to thank Facebook for showing us what social media is not supposed to look like".
ReplyDeleteNothing is private on Facebook, or they wouldn't require the information.
ReplyDeletePerhaps you don't understand.
ReplyDeleteIt's not other people you have to protect your privacy against.
It's facebook.
They have no restrictions to access anything on their servers.
The term 'Private' account means nothing.
It's not private.
That's why they give it to you in the first place.
And I don't think you are taking into account a number of relevant parameters.
ReplyDeleteI insist on nothing.
It's you that supplies the assumption.
As the old saying goes, "If there isn't a price, you are the product".
It has nothing to do with the odd staff member accessing a server and reading your email and everything to do with the harvesting of personal information which is then on-sold to an ever avaricious advertising market.
This can be done in a few different ways.
It can be done as Facebook does it, by allocating 'Private' accounts in order to provide the illusion of security of information to facilitate release (It's actually not the other users you need to lock out), or,
it can be done the way Google does it, through a depersonalised process, using the same algorithm their search engine employs, garnering information, but not attaching it to you on a personal level and just on-selling, indirectly, the demographic factor.
Which is why you will find me here and not on Facebook.
No paranoia here.
I live in the realm of reality.
And know what I am talking about.
If you see yourself as a viable product and are happy for Facebook to continue using you in this fashion, that is your choice, but there's nothing 'Private' about it, within any definition of the term.