
- Nah. Unless they started sending me cupcakes.
- Their decision, not ours.


I must admit a certain level of professional ignorance when it comes to cloud computing; much of my own commentary on the subject has been limited to security problems and my general anger with the way sites like Facebook have abused their users. It was refreshing to see some good stuff :).

In response to the continual antics of Zuckerberg and Co, today was the International Kill Your Facebook Day (or variations upon that theme).
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Soylent Greenbes: You are not Facebook’s customer. You are the product that they sell to their real customers — advertisers. Forget this at your peril.
Alas, forgetting still doesn’t give you the ability to permanently delete your account and have Facebook forget you. Which is a shame because in Soviet Russia, Facebook forgets you.

I know I’ve been saying this repeatedly for years now, but it seems just when Facebook does something interesting, they take two steps back in privacy in the same pen stroke. I’m saving my worrying out loud about Facebook’s new Like button for another post, this one has to do with (yet another!) disturbing policy change.

In a worrying trend, it seems Apple will be furthering Facebook integration this time with iTunes. MacRumours is hardly an impartial source on such matters, but that ratio above doesn’t look too favourable.

Facebook’s constant terms of service changes almost seem designed to test the limits of what they can get away with, much like Microsoft in the 1990s. This is the creepiest part of their proposed privacy policy:

Not sure what’s scarier, the fact these messages exist for me to get sent in the first place, or that people who know me (or have at least added me on Facebook) think I’d be receptive to them.

Hot on the heels of my comment on someone’s tweet about Facebook (wow, wasn’t that an internet sentence) one of my friend CalgaryGuru’s tweets got me thinking about FriendFeed.
Just pulled Facebook out of my FriendFeed… Stuff I post on FB doesn’t always make sense as a twitter tweet. Besides, FF is depricated.
(emphasis added)

@jowyang commenting on #smba:
Many attendees say they don’t trust Facebook. Concerned about how their data is used, permissions, and connecting personal with work