bovlomov wrote:kwackers wrote:No, I don't agree with that but they've been found out, there's a lot of noise and stuff will happen because of it so it's all good.
If the illegal activities of Facebook and CA have given us Trump and Brexit, I'd argue that it's very far from good.
You'd rather they hadn't been found out?
Prior to the internet we had newspapers, if you think they didn't have agenda's, money pumped in from dodgy places and didn't influence stuff they had no right fiddling with you'd be wrong.
Why do you think the old fogies whom gave us brexit are the main readers of the DM and the least likely to have FB accounts, whilst the youngsters who are on social media and don't read the DM voted against it?
All media social or otherwise and including this one is guilty of warping opinion.
Why are you on here? Might it be because it's fundamentally an echo chamber for your cyclist-centric beliefs?
More generally, the problem is with the speed of development.
Is there? I suspect most youngsters (who in the main have long since departed FB for pastures new) would disagree.
Personally so would I. So much possibility out there and we're barely scratching the surface.
For the individual user, any sense of etiquette, social responsibility and self-preservation lags somewhat behind the technology. That has far reaching consequences. In the past, a camera clicking in one's face was a minor irritation. Now one has to consider whether that snap will end up all over the web - with consequences ranging from mildly embarrassing to career threatening.
If you're worried that snaps may be embarrassing or career threatening then I'm not completely convinced that your standards of etiquette, social responsibility and self-preservation match mine.
I certainly have no such fears.