After reading this New York Times story…

1. would you trust Mark Zuckerberg with your data?
2. Can Facebook's business plan survive without deals like this?
3. Do you (still?) have a Facebook account?

1. Never.
2. Maybe, but it deserves to die if it can't fix it.
3. I never had a FB account and never will.

1. Would you trust a guy who looks like he sleeps in a burrow with ANYTHING, let alone your data? If I've ever run across a guy who looks like his nickname should be "Weasel", it's Mark Zuckerberg.

2. It might survive, but it sounds like it would suffer greatly.

3. NEVER had one! The first "friend" request I got, even aside from it's "You may know..." freaking me out, repulsed me totally, and I clicked on the "Never darken my door again" link at its bottom. (And, although I won't gift them with "true to their word", they haven't, but I don't doubt that they've got a record of every public page I've ever looked at.)


Why am I not surprised that he didn't mention "INTEGRITY"?

And speaking of integrity, it's pretty remarkable how many of Facebook's beneficiaries were/are unaware of their special access.

Ditto — in spades.

What Jon said.

To be fair my responses are:

1. I think Zukerberg meant well in the beginning, but in the rush to get ever bigger and more influential he hasn't taken time to rethink what his philosophy in light of 2018/2019 internet realities — so NO!
2. I think facebook can survive, simply because so many people have become totally dependent on it for much of their social lives. However it may have to go to a "level" membership with the lowest level at no cost other than providing marketers with free access to the subscriber's entire lives, and more secure level(s) on a paid subscription basis.
3. My account has been inactive for at least three or four years, but I am taking steps to have it removed completely. Unfortunatly this may cut me off from a few organizations/businesses who no longer have web access outside of Facebook.

By-the-way I feel much the same way about Google but at least they were honest enough to openly change their privacy policy to say they own your data and reserve the right to sell it to anyone who wants it.

3. I had to open a Facebook account to view photographs my friend posted. I embraced the concept for a brief time, but closed my account when I read that anyone who friended you could be compromised just by the association. I followed the instructions for complete downloading of my 'file' and deletion of the account. Trouble is, I don't know if I've disappeared from the site, because you can't look for yourself if you don't have an account.

However, if a business has a site on Facebook and you have an offsite link, from Google maybe, or a direct site address, you can access their webpage.

Since Google has been mentioned, you might find this interesting:
The State and Google

You may be crediting MZ with a philosophy beyond that of pure greed. I think not.

Yikes !!!

Eating links is a good way to start your day; clicking on them is a good way to ruin it.

(I wonder what Pogo would have to say?)

More: 45 seconds to post.

Probably, "Enough's enough, I'm going fishing."