It's been mentioned a thousand times in the context of Google, Twitter, and Facebook — and the latter once again confirms it, by providing Politico with anonymized info about who's mentioning which candidates in what way on Facebook. #ddtb
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Facebook Gives Politico Deep Access to Users’ Political Sentiments
A partnership between Facebook and Politico announced today is one of the more far-reaching efforts to understand how social media users feel about U.S. election candidates.
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I'm more convinced nearly every day that I will never join FB.
It's the only place you can go for certain people, unfortunately … but I keep my presence there to a minimum, even though I don't have anything in particular to hide.
"…you are the product" has become a truism of free web services but the providers thereof are stupid not to listen to their users. So it is still worth speaking up.
Certainly, George — esp. since if enough folks get torqued or fed up, then the value of the product to advertisers, etc., dwindles (ask the MySpace and Yahoo folks).
Couldn't help but think of one of my heroes … "… until the rights to you are sold…"
http://youtu.be/wEA6oRPSmUA
The Slime has been with us a long time, as have warnings about it. The appellation may be particularly appropriate to FB (and successors), though, because of the level of detail now available. When Frank wrote this song, broad swaths of demographic groups are all that could be identified by Nielsen meters. Now …