we criticize it for creating a "closed silo of content" in which information is not represented in open URLs, while simultaneously criticizing it for not providing and enforcing strong, simple privacy controls.
Good point - criticism of Facebook is confused and needs to become more focused. The "closed silo of content" point is key and the "lack of privacy" point is ultimately a canard. It's not one shouldn't have privacy but that Facebook promises an impossible kind of "privacy" akin to personal DRM, impossible like personal DRM, and serving merely as a excuse for Facebook's enhanced control and increasing it's "silo". See Facebook's ridiculous reply to Google on email addresses - as if someone giving you their email address via Facebook could reasonably expect to revoke that gift at a later point("DRM-like"/impossible).
The short story of Facebook privacy is that you shouldn't post anything that could get fired etc, using your real name, whether it's on your Facebook page or elsewhere.
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we criticize it for creating a "closed silo of content" in which information is not represented in open URLs, while simultaneously criticizing it for not providing and enforcing strong, simple privacy controls.
Good point - criticism of Facebook is confused and needs to become more focused. The "closed silo of content" point is key and the "lack of privacy" point is ultimately a canard. It's not one shouldn't have privacy but that Facebook promises an impossible kind of "privacy" akin to personal DRM, impossible like personal DRM, and serving merely as a excuse for Facebook's enhanced control and increasing it's "silo". See Facebook's ridiculous reply to Google on email addresses - as if someone giving you their email address via Facebook could reasonably expect to revoke that gift at a later point("DRM-like"/impossible).
The short story of Facebook privacy is that you shouldn't post anything that could get fired etc, using your real name, whether it's on your Facebook page or elsewhere.