At current estimates of Facebook’s value you are worth about $35. Let’s be clear, you are giving up information of value that is being sold for cash and that (minus overhead) is providing the service. In this case the price is ‘free’ and its very hard to decide if you are getting value. But, This isn’t like shopping at the grocery store where you always can check both the prices and the labels. For many of us, Facebook does give us something useful. He just wasn’t getting anything out of it that he felt was important. I think there is a much more fundamental question to ask, before you even worry about the privacy implications, why am I spending my time making Mark Zuckerberg money.ĭavid Sparks notes on the utility of Facebook comes a little closer to my idea. I recently responded to CogDog’s post on why to quit Facebook. Many have focused on the privacy issues as the reason to quit a service that isn’t meeting your expectations. The issue of the privacy changes and future intentions of Facebook could be considered a similar quandary.
There is an old joke about how to boil a frog. Subtitle: Why am I working to make other people money. Tagged socialmedia | Leave a comment Quitting Facebook and why Free is a very dangerous price
If you want to reply to something someone else you put it up on your own blog and go from there.
Discssion forums are pretty much dead except for the software support sites and the Facebook Wall. But now that seems to be a really rare event. It used to be the case, that there would be some influential blogs and you would go to that site and engage in a comment tread, maybe someone would host a discussion board on something really interesting. It is interesting to be sure, but unless you are actually engaging in conversation with those that come to your site – what does it really matter if you have a ‘profile’ of who they are. Unless you are “monetizing” your blog with Ads and referrals there is little purpose in keeping that kind of track of your viewership. If I really need to look there are basic stats available from my hosting provider but I find I’m not looking at those either. I turned off Google Analytics on my sites a couple of months ago. Via no analytics | D’Arcy Norman dot net. I’d sworn off third party analytics apps recently, because I don’t think it’s a good idea for me to be feeding companies with detailed information about everyone that comes through my sites I’d been running either SiteMeter, or Google Analytics, or Stats, or Piwik, since (almost?) day 1.
This was recently posted by D’Arcy Norman and I couldn’t agree more.įor the first time since I can remember, I’m not running any analytics packages on either of my blogs.