Comments on: Facebook Still Owns You http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/20/facebook-still-owns-you/ tech, science, news and social issues for geeks Sun, 22 Nov 2009 01:14:18 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Joe http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/20/facebook-still-owns-you/#comment-136823 Joe Mon, 23 Feb 2009 03:01:23 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10700#comment-136823 Yeah, I'm so glad they backed down on their TOU! But, it's scary where FB is headed..... are sexy social networks allowed? or are we like China nowadays... Yeah, I’m so glad they backed down on their TOU! But, it’s scary where FB is headed….. are sexy social networks allowed? or are we like China nowadays…

]]> By: coffee http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/20/facebook-still-owns-you/#comment-136781 coffee Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:02:48 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10700#comment-136781 the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place the fact that Facebook change their TOS back so quickly is an indication that they knew they were wrong in the first place

]]> By: SL http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/20/facebook-still-owns-you/#comment-136653 SL Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:57:31 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10700#comment-136653 Chuckling at a typo in your intro - it's "backpedaling," not "packpeddling"! Chuckling at a typo in your intro – it’s “backpedaling,” not “packpeddling”!

]]> By: Doug Gaff http://www.geeksaresexy.net/2009/02/20/facebook-still-owns-you/#comment-136506 Doug Gaff Fri, 20 Feb 2009 18:42:02 +0000 http://www.geeksaresexy.net/?p=10700#comment-136506 Chris Brogan had an interesting post when the <a href="http://www.chrisbrogan.com/wake-up-to-how-you-share-on-the-web/" rel="nofollow">facebook TOS change</a> originally came out. His argument boiled down to: "you already don't own anything". Companies that provide services for us have been selling our personal information for years. It's why we get telemarketing calls, credit card offers, and email spam. Privacy statements and anti-telemarketing laws are all reactive responses to this problem, not pro-active approaches to privacy. Without weighing in on what our privacy rights should be, I'd just like to point out that some of Gen-X and almost all of Gen-Y have a completely different notion of privacy and personal transparency. I think facebook et. al. are just mirrors of a cultural shift we're undergoing, not drivers of that shift. In other words, there are large groups of people who could care less what happens to their content on facebook. So do I own this comment, or do you? Chris Brogan had an interesting post when the facebook TOS change originally came out. His argument boiled down to: “you already don’t own anything”. Companies that provide services for us have been selling our personal information for years. It’s why we get telemarketing calls, credit card offers, and email spam. Privacy statements and anti-telemarketing laws are all reactive responses to this problem, not pro-active approaches to privacy.
Without weighing in on what our privacy rights should be, I’d just like to point out that some of Gen-X and almost all of Gen-Y have a completely different notion of privacy and personal transparency. I think facebook et. al. are just mirrors of a cultural shift we’re undergoing, not drivers of that shift. In other words, there are large groups of people who could care less what happens to their content on facebook.

So do I own this comment, or do you?

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