Is Facebook down for the count?
By Sean P. Aune
This is a rare day as of late… no new news about how Facebook’s Beacon service has killed kittens… I mean invaded your privacy again.
It seems like we can’t log on to our computers lately without there being a new story about how Facebook’s Beacon service has gotten another degree of evil. Let’s take a quick look here:
New York state is looking in to the legalities of the system
MoveOn.org has privacy concerns
Some concessions on opting-out… but not really
And now… the advertisers are saying Facebook lied to them
Facebook loses two more advertisers over Beacon debacle
You would think with this much bad publicity going on that the Facebook PR machine would have Mark Zuckerberg out on the front lines, talking to the tech blogosphere, calming fears, but as Robert Scoble aptly pointed out today, he is nowhere to be seen. Actually, no one from Facebook has been seen trying to handle this disaster.
At what point is Facebook going to do a “mea culpa”, pull Beacon for a retooling, and try to make nice with the Internet as a whole again? When do you realize it is better to admit a mistake then to let it just keep festering and getting larger? At some point, everyone has to go to the doctor and ask “Can you look at this, and how do we take care of it?”
The hole Facebook has dug for themselves is only getting deeper, and pretty soon, no one’s going to care if they ever climb out of it again.
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