9 Lessons The Tech World Learned In 2012


LESSON 5: Facebook’s dictatorship

Facebook sure is the biggest online social network in the world with one billion users. Since it is very popular and very sought after it doesn’t mean it is very democratic in nature, or we can say the company which lends its ear to the user wishes. The reason is only the other day, the company announced the termination of users' ability to hide from Facebook searches. Sam Lessin, director of product, Facebook, told journalists that the ability to hide from the site's search would be "retired" as only "a single-digit percentage of users" actually hide themselves from Facebook search. Given that Facebook has a billion users, a single-digit percentage could mean tens of millions of privacy "retirees". The decision seems as if imposed on the users at the same time trashing the user wishes.

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