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Facebook's Zuckerberg Says Forget Privacy
judgecorp writes "Privacy is no longer a social norm, according to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg. Speaking at the Crunchie awards in San Francisco, the entrepreneur said that expectations had changed, and people now default to sharing online, not privacy. It's all right for him, but does he mean it's ok for bodies like the UK government to monitor all citizens' Internet use?"
Let's identify the "real problem" then. User ignorance and apathy, right? Gullibility? The average individual's memory is no longer than the length of his penis or her bust size. (Notice that girls come out the winner in that comparison, LOL) The average brain works only during a bowel movement, and most people are constipated anyway.
Advertising. Funny how that works. They promise the world, deliver nothing, but the customer feels great for having been suckered. Strange.
Personally, when I actually WANT something, I go looking for it, compare features, compare prices, compare features again, then choose the lowest price for the feature set I decide upon. If I'm to believe what I read about people, almost everyone is an impulse buyer, who makes purchases of things they don't even need, simply because a flashy ad caught their eye, or because their neighbor/cousin/coworker has one.
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