> "Please make sure your friends are comfortable with any use you make of their information."
All 425 of my friends? And how, pray tell, did you expect people do go about doing this?
Simply putting up a simple click-through disclaimer is poor moral defense.
That message is incredibly disingenuous, and I do not believe whoever launched it believed for one fraction of a second that users will actually go out and seek their friends' permissions to activate the feature. Facebook expected people to just tap merrily through, and well, people did.
All 425 of my friends? And how, pray tell, did you expect people do go about doing this?
Simply putting up a simple click-through disclaimer is poor moral defense.
That message is incredibly disingenuous, and I do not believe whoever launched it believed for one fraction of a second that users will actually go out and seek their friends' permissions to activate the feature. Facebook expected people to just tap merrily through, and well, people did.