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If Facebook is causing you to lose sleep over privacy concerns then stop using Facebook.
The end.
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If they want to fuck around with their customers then their customers should look elsewhere for a better alternative.
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I guarantee you that the market will provide an alternative to Facebook if the demand is there (and no... I'm not talking about Myspace).
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12/15/09
The art of the kvetch.
You don't have to be Jewish.
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Now if you'd be so kind as to pass me the orange gag ball I'll get down off of my soap box for the evening.
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It is the mere fact that everyone's kindergarten friends and old neighborhood pals are on FB that makes it so appealing. Hell, I'm sure there are tons of awesome ripoff FB-types out there already, but no one gives a fuck because no one's using them.
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12/16/09
By the way, maybe I wasn't clear -- the attitude I was referring to wasn't yours, it's Facebook's. There are plenty of other ways they could be making money off of their site, but they're choosing ones that will bring in short term profit, at the expense of customer loyalty. Eventually, when there really is a viable alternative -- and you're right that there will be one at some point -- it's going to bite them in the ass, hard.
12/16/09
12/16/09
And on a related note... I liked my second analogy. I thought it was topical (see Tiger) and edgy. It was sexy too goddammit. That's right. Sexy.
Thank you and good night.
12/16/09
it's really narrow-minded and lazy to construct an argument around "but facebook is really good and all of my friends are on it, so facebook should bend to my will and be the way I like it. i can't possibly imagine that someone would create something that might compete with it...and exploit all the shit that fb is currently getting wrong in terms of social networking..."
sorry. i like fb (most of the time) too. some of the decisions they've made over the last year are beyond retarded. still, it is free and I've slowly unburdened myself of the notion that they actually give a shit about what their "customers" actually like.
so, I guess adjusting your privacy settings or making lists or removing photos or doing less crazy shit in real life that might possibly be captured and put on facebook where your boss or your HR person or whomever you decided to friend might see it is "solving the problem"
for now.
sounds like a great way to spend time.
12/16/09
Good customers (using that term loosely) provide feedback to businesses, and good businesses listen to that feedback (but are not bound to follow it of course). Taking your business elsewhere is a powerful option that we should have, but it ends up hurting both the user as well as the company.
12/15/09
Hijinks did indeed ensue.
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3. Where we will then go to experience second-hand the twee epiphanies of the overprivileged?
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11/16/09
fortunately, this shirt is still available in China #barackobama
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1. Make a new Twitter account (or use an already-established one),
2. make sure it's public -- so that its tweets will show up on search.twitter.com -- and then send out several tweets,
3. make sure that the tweets have variety: normal, trivial ones; @replies to non-famous people; nice @replies to famous people; mean @replies to famous people (to both some of the same people that some of the nice @replies were sent to and new ones); etc.,
4. conduct a ton of different searches on search.twitter.com and track the results: search immediately after sending tweets, a couple of hours after, a day after, etc. and then see which ones a) never showed up in the search, b) showed up but then disappeared, and c) showed up and stayed,
5. see what the results tell you about the question you're trying to answer.
I'd be happy to test it out if you'd like me to do so. Let me know. #twitter
10/29/09
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I think it'd be hilarious if I did it with either @dinalohan or @kiera_knightley. The problem, though, is that Dina technically doesn't really know how to @reply to people and Keira is too much of a snob to really bother. #twitter
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