Kinda knew right??
Didn’t we all kind of know that Facebook and all the hype and invites and linking and the early joy and wonder were too good to be true. Not to mention the fairy-tale valuation of $15 billion(albeit shrinking) dollars. Well Humpty Dumpty had a great fall and the damage control is in effect as customers begin deserting Facebook’s Beacon program. First Coca Cola, now Overstocked and Travelocity are fleeing the rat ship claiming ignorance of what the evil Facebook was up to.
Should Facebook be held accountable for violating it’s users privacy and going overboard with sharing and collection of data and being generally creepy? Of course, but we need to hold the advertisers that encouraged them and joined them accountable as well.
Om Malik has a piece titled, “Beacongate…” and PC World addresses the privacy issues in detail.
