What does Facebook do with all the money it earns via advertising? Google has to support the huge number of free services they offer, for example. Mapping the entire world doesn't come cheap.
Why are people so scared of their "personal" data (i.e. what colour t-shirts they like) being shared? It's like those tools who protest against CCTV being installed - if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem with being incidentally caught on tape.
Well, Google has far more advertisements than facebook but facebook makes far more money releasing personal information. I suppose my problem with them releasing personal data is if they are going to make money off me (which they are making a lot) they should pass some of that money THIS way.
Taipan
Also - its not just personal information like "what color tshirts you like" but Google also saves every search you've ever entered into the search engine. Forever. That's a little scary.
Lira
Great, even Orkut is now being upgraded to 2.0!
Del, come on, where are the flying cars you promised us here on TA!?
Lira
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Originally posted by Euforix
You never know what CIA is going to do with that information. :eek:
I can easily tell what they'd do in my case.
"This guy apparently likes linguistics and philosophy and hangs out with too many girls of East Asian descent, being engaged to one. If we ever need a spy to change his mind about something, let's deploy Naomi Choi...msky" :p
Moongoose
They would assassinate me if they ever saw my search history...my interests in finance, rocketry, advanced physics and world domination, not to mention my belief that the world would be a much better place if someone dropped a nuke on the vatican, mecca, jerusalem and Clearwater, florida.
Then again, there are all those search strings for best slice of life comedy animes, so they could just figure me a harmless geek and leave me alone....
If only they knew
Nrg2Nfinit
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Originally posted by Domesticated
Two questions.
What does Facebook do with all the money it earns via advertising? Google has to support the huge number of free services they offer, for example. Mapping the entire world doesn't come cheap.
Why are people so scared of their "personal" data (i.e. what colour t-shirts they like) being shared? It's like those tools who protest against CCTV being installed - if you're not doing anything wrong, you shouldn't have a problem with being incidentally caught on tape.
noikeee
Frankly the lamest thing that happened to the internet in the past few years was the decline of the importance of chat rooms/group chats. I have no idea why they went out of fashion, they were awesome. You'd get to know people and get a bond with people. It doesn't really work like that in social networks or in instant messaging services, that's for talking to real-life friends or chatting up members of the opposite sex. :p Or maybe that's just me, I've never been the kind that randomly starts up private conversations with random dudes from the internet - "heeeeeeeeeey how you're doing?"
Forums like this sort of have that same atmosphere, the community atmosphere, but it's all too segmented in threads, sub-forums, whatever. It's enjoyable to have people talking all day long about random in a group chat, as long as those people are interesting to you. I do use a service (groups.im) which emulates a group chat in MSN by adding it as a contact, and talk regularly there to about 7 or 8 people I know from another forum. It's fun and we've all become good pals. I just don't understand why we have to use this strange hack, or go back to ancient like IRC. Why the hell have chat rooms have become gradually less and less mainstream? Back in my high-school days everyone used IRC and it was great. Nowadays all they do is Facebook and MSN.
Tasty Onions
Chat rooms are text only, thus boring (forums are also on the decline, btw; just look at the number of new topics created here over the last five years). The new web style is images and Flash objects being posted everywhere. So, the change was due to better Internet speeds.
ziptnf
I like Google+. I mean, Google practically owns my life as it is, so I don't mind jumping on board with this. It seems like it's a lot better than Facebook at the moment, and I really like those hangout things. Group chats are pretty fun, especially with your friends during random moments. I like the concept, it seems like a more practical way to go about social networking.
Originally posted by Tasty Onions Chat rooms are text only, thus boring (forums are also on the decline, btw; just look at the number of new topics created here over the last five years). The new web style is images and Flash objects being posted everywhere. So, the change was due to better Internet speeds.
Erm, instant messaging is text-only and everyone still uses it. And facebook chat sort of counts as instant messaging.
I suppose you can do facebook chat for groups too, but it's not quite the same thing as old school chat rooms. I personally can't use it because you have to be "online" to chat. I've got all my co-workers on facebook and i don't want them to see i'm constantly online there all day long. :p Whereas we have to be online all day long on MSN because we use it for work. ;)
