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Facebook To Eliminate Voting On Privacy Changes
Orome1 writes "Facebook has announced some proposed updates to their Data Use Policy (how user data is collected and used) and their Statement of Rights and Responsibilities (explains the terms governing use of their services). These updates include new tools for managing Facebook Messages, changes to how they refer to certain products, tips on managing one's timelines, and reminders about what's visible to other people on Facebook. Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president of communications, public policy, and marketing, said: 'We found that the voting mechanism, which is triggered by a specific number of comments, actually resulted in a system that incentivized the quantity of comments over their quality,' he explained. 'Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.'"
Translation: whatever the various government surveillance agencies tell us to do.
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How can a crowd make a good decision: half of the voters are more stupid than the average.
lucm, indeed.
I didn't like their privacy system so I cancelled my FB account.
Sigs. We don't need no steenking sigs.
So the only people that should be allowed to "vote" are people that can contribute "quality" comments? Are they saying that having a large number of people vote is a bad thing, and they would prefer that fewer people vote but have a larger say because their comments are higher "quality"?
You know, if FB had a dislike button to go along with the like button, then they would have an *actual* mechanism that could be used for voting.
Better known as 318230.
Stands on soap box
I vote we keep the voting system! What do you mean I can't vote on it?
First they get rid of your privacy, then they get rid of voting on privacy, what's next?
I've no idea what they are talking about. Must be because I deleted by FB a while ago.
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Okay, this is perhaps stating the obvious, but recently, facebook seems to be making such a bewildering set of changes which trample your privacy, that it's impossible to keep track of what's going on. Take FB messages -- without any notification that I was aware of, it started telling people whether I'd read their messages or not. Then it stopped doing this (as far as I can tell), but kept doing it for group messages. Then it started telling me where people were located when they were messaging me. Incredible!
Deconstruct the State
You'd know this if you didn't go outside.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
>>Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favor of a system that leads to more meaningful feedback and engagement.'
Therefore, we're proposing to end the voting component of the process in favour of a system that leads to us being able to get more cash
Why is Google+ not it? I use it, all it needs is people to move. That is a problem every site will face with the masses too ignorant and/or lazy to leave Facebook. The only thing Google+ is missing is the ability to post on other peoples walls but putting a + before their name on your own wall accomplishes the same thing.
Google+ is amazing but for whatever reason, people just refuse to leave Facebook because they don't give a rats ass about their privacy. Hell most people don't even grasp what privacy is and are happy to post all their drunken frat pics to the public for future employers to see.
If you want people to get over to something like Google+ then you need to do it yourself also. You can't sit on your ass and wait for other people to start using it. Be vocal, post on Facebook publicly the problems with it, and show them the options.
I honestly have no idea what they are talking about. I admit I'm not a big Facebook user, but I enter some times a week and never saw such voting.
Can someone clarify?, is this a US only thing?
Care-o-meter: barely moving.
I'll just keep on using adblock, such a first world anarchist...
C'mon if G+ had more users do you really believe they wouldn't behave this way ?
That's exactly what I said dear AC, even if I'm an Android fanboy. I know what Google is.
I said: If G+ was bigger, it would be a "Facebook 2.0". What I like in Google is that they often release source code to allow people create their community versions of Android, rooting is explained in the manual, (i.e. you don't have to wait for a hacker to decrypt the security of the mobile phone you're supposed to OWN and not to license).
Google often contributes in Linux kernel, of course it's for their own interest, but they could also keep their work for themselves.
I've got a Google+ account, and I use it with my more geekish friends. It hasn't caught on in the wider community I deal with, though, in spite of my efforts.
My life would be a lot easier if I could move a total of about 3,000 people over to Google+ and get them to spend the minimal amount of time it takes to get comfortable with it. As far as I'm concerned, the interface beats the crap out of Facebook, and the communications tools are superior.
I've calculated my velocity with such exquisite precision that I have no idea where I am.