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[taligent]

And how is this ANY different from Google which knows far more about you then Facebook ?

Oh that's right. It isn't. Which makes this idea that Facebook is going to die as realistic as Google is going to die.

[grey-area → taligent]

If you mean G+, of course it's no different. If you mean email, typically only governments and courts can get access to that without hacking. I don't feel it's as insidious as daily public postings.

[pessimizer → taligent]

Google knows an awful lot more about my interests, but a hell of a lot less about my associations, or things that I have actually done, than facebook.

[tedunangst → pessimizer]

Between gmail and google voice, they know quite a bit about a lot of people's associations.

[pessimizer → tedunangst]

True, but most facebook friends rarely, if ever, merit an actual email. And when they do, unless they are also in gmail, it won't trigger as large a cascade of edges gaining weight in a massive social graph.