Yeah right! I feel suspicious over the statement given by Mark Zuckerberg at the crunchies. How can he say that so confidently? And more importantly on behalf of everyone using the beloved social network; Facebook? I have always thought of Facebook to be a very dictatorially controlled democracy. More importantly the words have come out on an issue of privacy that has so many of its users concerned.
Privacy is one major reason why people actually enjoyed using Facebook. I mean Orkut came in with a boom and it grew quite a lot until Facebook caved in with a more secure platform. You knew no stranger was watching your pictures or reading your wall posts. But things are been pushed off into some other direction. Of course user data is said to be kept private but emphasis has been laid upon opening up a bit of user information to the eyes of the search engines.
See to it yourself, I mean unless you actually opt to hide your status updates and keep them visible to your friends only, Facebook would leave you open to appear in search results. Again the purpose of opening up just apart of the platform to the search engines means a lot, I mean there are over 350 Million users that are the part of the social network and the status updates reach at least a billion daily. That gives quite a high chance of search engines picking up Facebook and directing people to it. The point here is the obvious revenue source that Facebook is losing, compared to Twitter which not surprisingly enough must be churning some revenue with its deal with Microsoft and Google.
The issue at hand is one question that springs up: with all the brouhaha regarding privacy and opening up a bit of data to search engines, is Facebook actually planning to shatter all barriers? I mean what’s the point of giving users a chance to make their photos publically available? Sounds stupid. The users do want to share the photos across the platform, but only with those in their trusted group of friends, won’t they?
I am not sure what exactly is Mark advocating there, but opening up one status to the search engine means the replies, people who liked and commented to it are exposed. It’s more like a chain reaction and no sooner this happens all associated people to the status are exposed to be on the social network. That is what I think personally.
I sort of agree with the comment given in the original report which states:
This man is deranged and dangerous. All he wants to do is create a new advertising paradigm, where friends take part in advertising companies’ products to other friends. Real techies have always avoided Facebook and its ilk. Please, non-techie regular folk, avoid this man
and his gutter company for your own sakes and that of the wholeconcept of privacy.
As I end this one, I would want the readers to comment if they really think that Privacy is no more a norm?
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