Facebook and privacy do not really mix ...
Here's our top 10 reasons why you'd better stop using Facebook before it's too late
10. The privacy policy Facebook assumes all rights
First things first. The declaration of rights and responsibilities of Facebook says that your content belongs to them (see Section 2.1): "You grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use intellectual property content that you post on Facebook.
9. The CEO of Facebook has been shown repeatedly to unethical behavior
are questions about the ethics of Mark Zuckerberg since the inception of Facebook. According BusinessInsider.com, he used data Facebook users to guess passwords, e-mails and read private correspondence to discredit his rivals.
These allegations, if they have not been proven and a bit dated, nevertheless pose troubling questions about the ethics of the CEO of the largest social network in the world. This is particularly annoying as Facebook has also disbursed more than $ 65 million to end a lawsuit claiming that Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea of Facebook.
8. Facebook has declared war on privacy
founder and CEO of Facebook warrant last January changes relating to privacy on Facebook explaining that "people have become really comfortable with the fact of sharing not only more information but also more openly and with more people. This social norm is simply something that evolves over time. "
In other words, not only your data belong to Facebook, but they also have the right to show everyone. In itself, this is not necessarily unethical, but ...
7. Facebook encourages access to your data
They explain how developers access your data with s API, but are far less talkative when it comes to explaining the implications users. Facebook encourages you to share information that they then make available publicly.
In Since their business is to monetize your information for advertising purposes, this amounts to erode the users to provide information about themselves to advertisers. That's why Facebook is much worse than Twitter: Twitter has adopted the attitude of the simplest (and therefore more credible), stating bluntly that all the tweets of all users were public. Difficult to be more clear. But not Facebook. That is why the U.S. FTC gets involved and people are continuing (and win the case).
EFF has compiled an excellent history precisely which documents the changes in Facebook's privacy policy.
6. Facebook does not want it known
When Pete Warden disassembled how their system works (by searching among all the data that changes to privacy settings of Facebook had made public ) they sued. Why pursue an independent developer? Because they do not want their members to know how their data is accessible.
5. Even your private data is shared with applications
Currently, all your data is shared with applications you install. This means that you not only trust in Facebook, but developers of apps. Knowing that many of them do not necessarily protect your privacy as a priority. Clearly, you should assume that your data is your data- public, unless you never use any Facebook app. Coupled with the API OpenGraph, it means you are no longer simply rely on Facebook, but to the whole eco-system Facebook.
4. Facebook is not technically competent enough to be trusted for
Beyond ethical issues, the technical competence of Facebook does not seem enough to entrust their personal data. Their recent button "Like" has made it easier for spammers. And this is not the first time that Facebook is considered as a nugget for data collection .
Either they do not care a bit about the privacy of your data, or their engineers are not very good. Or maybe both.
3. Facebook makes it incredibly difficult to remove your account
The day you decide to quit Facebook, the site does not facilitate the task. Those who have experimented know it is not very clear really delete their account. This is probably as complicated as voluntary. Weary of war, perhaps you will agree to cancel your account. This is different from a simple deletion. Disable akin to a prolonged disconnection, during which your data stays in the system.
2. Facebook does not really like the open web
Their Open API Graph n'ad'open the name, the better conceal its closed nature. It really is completely proprietary. You may not use any of its features if you're not on Facebook. Implementing a truly open operate on any social network. In the same spirit, they implement a minimum OpenID to be able to say they support it, just to better promote their alternative owner, Facebook Connect.
1. Facebook is useless
Between apps rotten, old comrades class that you do not particularly want to hear about the balls and you had forgotten about, Facebook is more painful than useful in everyday life.
Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
Facebook is clearly engaged in a race with all the features of competing networks. As the frog with beef, not unlike Facebook AOL wanted to absorb all the web, at a time when their CDs were raining from the sky. Twitter at least knows how to stay in his place will not be omnipresent in your digital life.
You'd better take a step back on what you really bring social networks, on how you use them, and also about how you use them.
This article is a free adaptation of it in French written by Dan Yoder and published on Gizmodo.com . Dan Yoder is an entrepreneur who is notably Vice-President of Border Pen, a startup Hollywood specializes in social media. Although not in direct competition with Facebook, it is preferable that you know.
Harthcock Thanks to David for the illustration "Ban Facebook".
Gizmodo.fr in partnership with 20minutes.fr
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