I hate the nickle and dime approach to productivity. In fact, the happier I am the more I get done.

For perspective:

Last night's Lost finale got 13 million viewers, 2.5 hours each, so that's 32.5 million hours wasted there.

The Superbowl gets ~100 million viewers and lasts... what, three hours? So that's 300 million hours wasted there.

The soccer world cup final is rumoured to get something on the order of a billion viewers, so... that's a lot of hours wasted.

And your entire life, if you never do anything in the least bit worthwhile, will be a waste of approximately 700,000 hours.

Without judgment, I think it's important to point out in that at no point did he admit that Facebook screwed up, nor did he at any point apologize for anything.

Here are the principles under which Facebook operates:

-- You have control over how your information is shared.

-- We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want.

-- We do not give advertisers access to your personal information.

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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah. This is why Queerty and Pandora silently installed applications on my profile and had access to my data without me opting into anything (I've never used Connect or anything like it). Or why Instant Personalization was turned on automatically.

You pissed off a population of users, arguably who are tuned-into this discussion and many of which are technical enough to call you on your BS. The candy coated, lets see how little we can get away with, isn't going to work. In fact, it's only going to make things work.

If the new settings are good, good. Maybe they will avert some of the mistrust that many view towards them. I certainly won't forget the shit that went down on my profile w/o my permission in the last 2 months. Maybe an apology, an admission of a bad idea, etc would be more convincing.

At least Google had the stones to say, rather quickly, Oops, sorry, we shouldn't have done that.

I don't care if they do better. It's not pointless quitting, I now no longer have Facebook in my life. That was the point. "Challenging them to do better" has a strange assumption that somehow we all stand to gain if we can just make sure they get it right next time, or maybe the time after. They're not our friends, they're not an Oxfam, they're a business with a shitty product. I don't challenge Johnson & Johnson to get them to make a better band-aid, because frankly, I don't give a shit. Same with Facebook.

>"I think that we owe it to the users to challenge Facebook to live up to a higher standard, regardless of what we as individuals may gain or lose from their choices."

People need to learn to think for themselves and live with the consequences of their choices. It's not rocket science.

Just a weird article.