Friday, April 13, 2018

Is Mark Zuckerberg bad or are We Stupid?

Over the years especially with the dawn of Gmail there was a tendency of free services available online. So much that there was a lobby against paid softwares, paid music, anything that needed money. There were fools who were going around advocating PIRACY and encouraging P2P Networks and Torrents. Privacy issues were taken up by a handful people who were thought to be fools because there was really no issue like Privacy bothering normal consumers according to many. The habit of having a free meal had made everyone forget an old lesson.... No meal comes free!

Back when email started for free users with hotmail, the amount of data scanned or users being monitored was never a priority for Microsoft or hotmails original creator Sabeer Bhatia and Jack Smith. Hotmail was a boon to people who needed a free email ID despite of not having their own ISP (Internet Connection at home which came with email ID). People could access their personal email through their office internet or internet cafes. When GMAIL came in, the picture changed. Google has been cunning as soon as it started branching out after its SEARCH ENGINE stage. They tried to make people believe that Google was meant for ELITE people.. and was BY INVITE ONLY. They anyway wanted everyone on their platform and their product had a privacy issue right from the beginning.

As far as my own experience is concerned, the dawn of social media began with Hi5 which seemed to be flooded with teens looking for a date, it ended up with a stable platform called Orkut. Orkut in literal sense connected to people that we had lost contact with and many times many new. Professional networks like LINKEDIN were also growing at a certain pace. When facebook started to come up, google understood that they are not having enough of user data and bought orkut... but they failed miserably... also with their reinvented social media network called PLUS. So hot they were going on marketing of PLUS that they used to send stickers of PLUS to business users of google. Ofcourse there were fools like me who used to put up those stickers on our BIKES or LAPTOPS proudly.

People are suddenly talking about facebook and privacy since a week since Mark Zuckerberg's video answering the congress started going viral. I still dont think they are understanding the importance of privacy. They are just having fun like they have with any kind of viral. Mark Zuckerberg is a person who has cheated his friend, his partner in facebook, why the hell he would give a shit about facebook users privacy?

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