blackuniverse

Facebook is supposed to be about an open community. But an open community could not exist without trust. Does Facebook earned our trust?

Hell, I could be wrong, but asking people to provide their real names and information and put them in the Net is a lot to ask if in the end you intend to manipulate them to no end.

Now I know that social networking sites are making money from its user base. To some degree, I understand that they are selling our data to companies for commercial (and God knows what else) purposes.

What surprised me is how far Facebook is willing to go, and how it is making it difficult for users to delete their account completely.

“It’s like the Hotel California,” said Nipon Das, 34, a director at a biotechnology consulting firm in Manhattan, who tried unsuccessfully to delete his account this fall. “You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.”

Facebook is responding to this issue. Unfortunately phrases like “working on ways to improve user experience” sounded too much like PR defense mechanism to me. That’s how I make a living, remember?

It helped to read some positive stuff about Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, that he is willing to be more open to the community etc etc. But it would be much better if I as one of the user wouldn’t have to feel f*cked first.

First thing first, let’s get rid of those damn applications from my Facebook page.