I think you missed my point. To extend your analogy, I would only buy a weapon that was designed to minimize accidental or irresponsible use. A gun sold by Facebook would fire at my family whenever an advertiser told it to.
Richard On Tuesday May 24 2011 15:52:55 Jonathan Duncan <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 24 May 2011, at 15:33, Richard Esplin wrote: > > > I don't think shunning all social media is necessarily the right approach. > > I really enjoy LinkedIn's ability to let me track my friend's careers. > > Google has made their share of mistakes, but I think they generally try and > > strike a healthy balance (their data liberation initiative I think is very > > important and I hope they learned from Buzz). Facebook seems oblivious to > > privacy concerns. Sometimes they seem to take privacy concerns as a > > brainstorming session for new revenue streams. > > > > It's going to take time to find the right balance. I'm sure we'll see lots > > of creepy stuff on the way. > > > > I love technology. Just like any tool, it can be used for good or evil. I > think Social Media is amazing. Of course, the more amazingly helpful a tool > is for "the good guys" the more amazingly helpful it is to "the bad guys". > Just because some "bad guy" has learned how to make my favorite tool into a > demon spawner, I am not going to stop using it. I think it is important that > everyone be made aware of the bad ways that tools can and are being used by > those other people. This way we can each individually better able to use the > tools wisely ourselves and teach our children appropriately. Being scared > away from using a tool gives the bad guys more control over us. They win > through the use of fear and terror. We lose when we let them get away with > it. > > What a handy tool that handgun is. Uh oh, a bad guy used it to kill someone. > That handgun tool must be bad. Shun the bad tool. Cower from the bad > people that perverted what I at first thought was a good tool. Make some > laws that hinder people from using that tool. Hmmm... odd, now only the bad > people have that really handy tool and they have even more control over us > because we stopped using it and have a more difficult time defending > ourselves against their perverted use of the tool. > > All too familiar. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
