> People simply do not care about their privacy if its in conflict with convenience
is only partially correct.
So far I have been able to distinguish these kinds of people:
- people unaware
- people aware that try their best to keep privacy (if they are on facebook, they limit their usage - more or less like "lurkers")
- people aware and still posting stuff on FB/giving some permissions and they still do "something" (a bit more than lurkers above)
- people aware but "I don't have anything to hide", yet still unaware of the full potential of lack of privacy and they post whatever they want
- people aware and educated about privacy and "I don't have anything to hide" (yes, they do exist) and they still post whatever they want
> I simply cannot find the words to blame Facebook for this.
I have to disagree here as well. There are certain things which I agree with you on, e.g., this feature was enabled by default, because users want to have more convenience. Indeed! However, what about last week's scandal with Cambridge Analytica? And what else aren't we aware of? I am trying my best not to connect these two facts, yet, it seems there is a pattern when it's about user data => who cares, they don't know what they want.
> However, what about last week's scandal with Cambridge Analytica?
This isn't news to me. Any data submitted by a user to Facebook is forever surrendered to Facebook who then owns it. Facebook can do whatever they want with their property.
The only surprise there is that users so happily agree to this madness only to be shocked by the result. What did they think was going to happen? Still, I don't blame Facebook for this.
It reminds me how people (Twitter addicts) were shocked at this website 10 years ago: http://pleaserobme.com/
> People simply do not care about their privacy if its in conflict with convenience
is only partially correct.
So far I have been able to distinguish these kinds of people:
- people unaware
- people aware that try their best to keep privacy (if they are on facebook, they limit their usage - more or less like "lurkers")
- people aware and still posting stuff on FB/giving some permissions and they still do "something" (a bit more than lurkers above)
- people aware but "I don't have anything to hide", yet still unaware of the full potential of lack of privacy and they post whatever they want
- people aware and educated about privacy and "I don't have anything to hide" (yes, they do exist) and they still post whatever they want
> I simply cannot find the words to blame Facebook for this.
I have to disagree here as well. There are certain things which I agree with you on, e.g., this feature was enabled by default, because users want to have more convenience. Indeed! However, what about last week's scandal with Cambridge Analytica? And what else aren't we aware of? I am trying my best not to connect these two facts, yet, it seems there is a pattern when it's about user data => who cares, they don't know what they want.