On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David Connors <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 February 2010 11:00, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Fair enough I suppose, since the whole idea of these sorts of sites is to > > make money, I guess I’d do the same thing. But now the security dangers and > > ethical problems become obvious. If they’re not doing this already, I > > imagine you could search the whole of Facebook looking for things like > > popular toys, books, music, political issues, etc and derive trends and > > stats upon how often they are mentioned by different age groups. This sort > > of information could be priceless. The technical aspects of this data > > trawling, parsing and collation would be fascinating. > > > > Oh well, I suppose this is just a symptom of the new money-grubbing > > globalised century we live in. > > That's a fairly glass-half-empty view of FB, Greg. :) They do provide the > service for free and so the reality is that they have to make a coin > somewhere. > The main problem I have with FB privacy is that they have tried to set > privacy policies in the past where they have effectively claimed that they > own all of your content forever, even if you leave the site, and that they > can license it to third parties as they see fit. Stop and think about the > implications of that for a second. You might send a photo of your kids > playing in the bath to your siblings - but somewhere along the line you've > granted perpetual rights of use to naked pictures of your children to some > company in the US. :| > Of course, you can't actually delete an FB account. You can close it and it > will give you a message to the effect that they're keeping the data and you > can reactivate your account any time you want.
Not to mention facebook emails you saying that "The following people would like to you open a facebook account" every now and then. I actually do think you can somehow permanently delete it; mine is currently "deactivated". It also had a hard time coping with my so-called "name change". As if Facebook somehow knows, better than ME, what my own name is. > -- > David Connors ([email protected]) > Software Engineer > Codify Pty Ltd - www.codify.com > Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 > 189 363 > V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors > Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact -- silky http://www.mirios.com.au/ http://island.mirios.com.au/t/rigby+random+20 once ephedrine! Complacency thrall sportsmanship fractiously nose.
