Why people like Facebook so much is something I can’t comprehend.
Why so many people who diss Friendster and other networking sites, yet act as if Facebook is the best thing ever happens to them is beyond me.
All those throwing of food, turning someone into vampires, joining groups, have no other explanation but riddikulus!
Just look at this (enlarge, please!):
What the …*beep*!
To me, Facebook is too nosy to be good.
Recently, it has a feature that will tell the whole world (ok, your list of friends) whom you have just sent a message to, whom you have received a message from.
Yes, I understand the point of Facebook is networking, but seriously, I want to get in touch with my friends without the whole world (ok, your list of friends) knowing whom exactly I am talking to at any single second of my Facebook stay.
It used to be even more dodgy.
Only earlier this month, Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg launched a formal apology over its use of Beacon.
Read the article here.
Essentially what Beacon does is tracking your other open windows while you are also on Facebook.
It is especially interested in your shopping sites.
So, let’s say you have just purchased a book on Amazon, your friend will see the exact item on his Facebook page.
Beacon acts as a consumer-group-sensitive advert tool.
It works on the principle that just because you are friends, you belong to the same consumer peer group, and will definitely be interested on the same items.
It’s certainly an intrusion of privacy
Your friends can easily peep into what you have been doing or what things you have been buying over the internet.
Just imagine if pictures of naked women suddenly flash on your Facebook page.
Surely, you will prefer to do your porn shopping in peace, and not to let the whole world (ok, your list of friends) to know about it?
For other evil things that Facebook can do, please read this great article here.
I can only think of one group of people who stands to benefit from Facebook.
Yeah, the application developers, the smart geeks who earn millions by creating all those silly applications you all have been subscribing to, to make your Facebook page appear funky.
Read the article here.
For the rest of us, or perhaps, only me, give me the plain, back-to-basic, good old friend, and my bare necessity, Friendster!
