This is my take on the whole Facebook sharing your phone number and address information. If you are unaware of this latest invasion to your privacy feel free to read up on it here at PC Mag & Huffington Post. In essence I feel that this boils down to some tech guy received a bogus phone number from some hot girl one too many times and thought hey I need to write a program to prevent this.
Honestly the whole purpose of Facebook was for it’s founders, a bunch of true tech geeks, to meet girls in college. I truly don’t see that changing much because now they have opened the door to your private world this latest announcement.
I have stated this several times before that privacy on the internet is pipe dream and we all need to get over it. Everyone needs to stop deluding themselves that their private data is actually that. If it is online then it is not private. Truthfully with each passing day I wonder why I have not deleted my account from Facebook.
I believe that the management of Facebook is pushing the envelope of irrelevancy faster than their bloated stock pricing. It is seriously one over valued company and have stated that they are likely to be dead by 2013. Honestly how can something with such a trite view of the world truly survive the global economic bubble? It certainly is bloated well beyond the implosion point of MySpace.
There is a simple solution to this problem. I have already removed my address and phone numbers from Facebook and I suggest everyone else do the same. Honestly think about it if we all removed our personal information or placed some seriously bogus information in our Facebook accounts then perhaps they will stop with the invasion of our privacy. In any event it would certainly render the use of this data to the realm of futile endeavors.
Yes this is just one man’s opinion and may not resonate with the rest of the koolaid drinking social media types but that’s why I am me and not them. I generally do not drink the koolaid unless there’s a helluva a lot of rum or vodka in it…
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Mikel King has been a leader in the Information Technology Services field for over 20 years. He is currently the CEO of Olivent Technologies, a professional creative services partnership in NY. Additionally he is currently serving as the Secretary of the BSD Certification group as well as a Senior Editor for the BSD News Network.
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