Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Seriously? No, I mean SERIOUSLY???

So. Facebook. We all knew what we were getting into, surely?

We were NOT being asked to fork over our hard earned, and even though guarantees were made about our privacy *snigger*, should we REALLY have been so naive as to imagine that the social networking site (amongst others) was NOT ever going to use the masses of data we willingly and ovine-ly (that's sheep-like) turned over in gazillo-Bytes to Mr Zuckerberg and Co?

I mean. Come ON.

And now, the public hue and cry goes out. Latest news article here, in which, and I quote the article verbatim (although I don't know whether this quotes the hapless US congressmen verbatim {I mean, what we read in this day and age is never going to be 100% accurate with no bias whatsoever})

"... two US congressman ... argu[ed] in a latter (sic) that when users log out of Facebook they are under the impression that Facebook is no longer monitoring their activities and “this impression should be reality”

I mean..... SERIOUSLY PEOPLE?

Are we so naive to think that if we have an impression of "the way the world works" that the world should magically re-engineer itself to suit our "reality"?

Am I on a planet of my own to think this attitude is particularly naive?

I mean, let's apply that principle to something else.

I am under the impression that I am a good person, and that shitty things should not happen to me, and "this impression should be reality".

Nope. Kinda doesn't work, does it.

How about this.

The 16th Century Church was under the impression that the Earth was the most important thing in the Universe, as we were created by God, and so the Sun should revolve around us, rather than the other way around like some pesky man called Galileo kept insisting, and hence Galileo should be excommunicated placed under house arrest in order that "this impression should be reality".

Ahhhhhh now I see the flaw in this assumption we have all been carrying around - that Facebook exists for OUR convenience, and not the other way around.