CONTEST - What'd you think about Facebook recent scandal? 5 SBD prize
Hey!
I didn't make a contest for a long time, and because of the recent Facebook scandal, I have decided to make an interesting ( at least for me ) contest that is related to that.
What'd you need to do?
In this contest, you will need to write a comment to this post with your thoughts about the recent Facebook scandal, Facebook's value decrease ( in around 18% ), if it will actually hurt Facebook a lot, and what do you think Facebook should do to gain the users trust again.
Rules
It has to be a comment, not an entire post
It has to be in English
It has to be formal and easy to read
It has to be your own thoughts and not copied content. copied content will get flagged.
The comment must be longer than 100 words.
Prize
There's only 1 winner, and I will choose the winner based on the quality of her/his comment and if the person's thoughts actually make sense.
The prize is 5 SBD.
I will 50% upvote every participant.
And I might follow you if I like your thoughts and ideas.
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I think the latest Facebook scandal is no more than a media spin.
lots of newspapers were hurt by Facebook dominance and politicians in allegedly democratic countries fears facebook increasing social power.
so no wonder all those parasites are jumping on the opportunity to punch the media giant when he shows vulnerability.
The majority of the people don't really care whether facebook or google are collecting and possessing their personal data.
They see the personally tailored ads on their Gmail inbox accounts but they are still using it because it's free and convenient.
They share tons of personal data and give ultimate access to free apps on their mobile phones without even a blink.
the public doesn't really care but when the media is making noise he wakes up for a short time, grumbles and falls asleep again.
facebook value decreased the same way shares always decrease in times of scandals.
I am sure they will go up again unless the regulator will impose new striker regulation that will hurt the revenue Facebook is making.
What should Facebook do?
the simple and the most proven effective action in these cases is to wait until the storm passes because the public is known for his short memory
Very well said, i think :-)
There are two reasons one is need and other is the ignorance that makes us vulnerable to scams like this. Facebook was considered more secure than other social networking sites, even the confidence of users increased when whatsapp privacy policy was launched.
But one thing is clear that we must not trust any app that will ask for permission to our mobile applications. Why they need it is first place? The answer is no,they don't!! Still they will ask us, and we trust them and provide our data.
Facebook is also doing same, now the data is displayed openly and so follows the applogies. Is seems impossible how the Facebook looked big firms are hacked and data is sent to third party like the Cambridge Analytica (the firm that claims the handling of Triumph election).
I think Facebook didn't do it deliberately but the one who did is Facebook.
We must keep our mind clear that before giving permission to anyone, why someone has need to access my phone or computer, if I can interpret it, he needs my data and behavior to suck my liquidity with one way or other.
Facebook may be regrettable but the phone call details that finished the human relations will not be trusted any more!
I think the race in compitition will never end and our online data will be never safe though facebook may now consider new security features, trust has been eroded to some extent.
I think the facebook must applogise to every user and must increase the security also if anyone is involved must be punished for the same. To gain the confidence of users facebook must update the encryption policy like whatsapp do.
Most of the people believe that the data was sold by Mark zukarberg, but I personally doesn't believe because why will he axe himself for a small gain which may lead facebook ruin with time. Hope facebook comes with a solution and produce the real picture of data leakage.
The leak scandal tens of millions of Facebook user data has caused the giant this technology company to experience a crisis, this scandal being one of the biggest, and even the worst that ever experienced by the social media Facebook.
The political consulting firm named Cambridge Analytica was reportedly involved in the scandal. Because this company had worked as a campaign team Donald Trump during the election of President of the United States in 2016 ago. They are accused of using millions of Facebook user data to create a software that can predict and influence vote selection..
This company told Facebook that the data was used for research purposes, but even used it for political campaigns that support Donald Trump's victory.
Actually the data of Facebook users can be accessed by many parties. We should also know that basically social media is not a personal medium because the information that is there can be seen by many people. Therefore, if someone has personal data, then it should not be shared to social media like Facebook and other social media.
This solution is not only a liability to Facebook, but its users must also be wise when sharing their personal information to media such as Facebook.karena access to the data itself is in the hands of the users ..
Facebook will recover from this crisis from many reasons although it will take some time.
Why?
• People tend to forget.
• It is not a perfect social network but it is a very big and popular one.
• Facebook is friendly to users.
• Any other network, is also far from being the best solution and even
attract less attention if they fulfill all regulations or not.
• Each user has a lot of data inside something, he wouldn't like to lose.
However, I believe it will change, the management team has to give explanations and solutions for keeping users privacy and some of them must pay for these cases of violations.
According to us as users we have to keep in mind that our privacy will be kept but without a zero tolerance to the possibility that we will suffer sometimes from nullifications and this is the price of "enjoying" the "fruits" of the digital world and the big data.
What do you think about this crisis? what are your thoughts about the recent events? and what'd you think Facebook should do to recover from this? I mean, I know they'll recover from this no matter what, but what'd u think they should do
They should make personal changes in the management team, a different board, CEO? and publishing the action points to avoid privacy violation as an answer to the crisis.
I would have said at first Mark Zuckerberg should make a public apology to hurting facebook users but apparently he has finally done that in a newspaper ad after intentionally avoiding it and trying to bring some logic out of it. This is just the beginning of the path to regaining users' trust.
Users should feel totally secure to share their private information with those and only those they have decided to add as friends without fears of having sensitive data about them leaked. What if there's a breach or hack like that of iCloud few years ago? That left many users including celebrities feeling insecure as their "private" and "deleted" photos and more were leaked.
I think they should make all user data less accessible without the user's content. There should also be a tool in the news feed to see all third-party apps with access to member data and an option to easily block any unwanted access.
Firstly, I would like to say thank you for creating this platform where we could actually share our thoughts on this issue.
The Facebook scandal has already cost Mark Zuckerberg $10billion, and might also cost more as the Federal Trade Commission are raising a prospect to a massive fine for Zuckerberg's social network because it had entered into a consent decree in 2011 about the use of personal data and any breach of that can be punished by the regulator.
Mark has already given an apology based on this and has also promised that such won't happen again, and one of the ways they are planning to do this is to reduce the amount of personal data apps collect from facebook users.
So I believe even as Facebook are already fixing the issue to regain the trust of their users, the users also have a part to play, as they should be more alert and careful of how they use the internet.
Thanks
The FUD around Facebook is absurd. It's actually disappointing. Here's why.
Everyone is pissed that Facebook has leaked data, whether to some marketing corp in England or about video calls being monitored. They're claiming this is a breach of trust, yada yada. The truth is that nobody should be surprised. This is all information that we've known for years. Remember Edward Snowden? Remember PRISM? ECHELON? Remember the discussion of Facebook partnering with corporations that would all trawl through the data to 'better market to your personal preferences'? Remember how Facebook sells the value of your eyesight to advertisers?
No? Don't remember? Well, what a surprise. This shit has been going on for years. YEARS. And suddenly, everyone is angry, now? The tragedy of this all is that it highlights the loss of memory, the mass ADD and amnesia of a society dependent on digital dopamine and instant-reddit-clickbait-now brains. People should have learned the truth about Facebook long ago, when we ALREADY FOUND IT OUT.
It's the CIA's wet dream.
I think this only hurts Facebook for the short term, not the long term. I don't think most people are too concerned with privacy issues, I think most people realise that Facebook is free to use so there is a trade off. That trade off is a loss of privacy for the users but they don't have to pay to use the platform.
I think we are already seeing Facebook start to mitigate the problems, with Mark Zuckerberg already issuing a statement on how the company will change and that this will not happen again.
I think that Facebook will face competition from block-chain solutions like Steemit, though Steemit is slightly different to Facebook in many ways. I could easily see a decentralised system giving users monetary reward for content and the ability to control their own data as the ultimate Facebook killer.
But as I said earlier privacy issues their own are not enough for Facebook to be toppled from the No. 1 spot and block-chains are not quite ready as yet but the clock is ticking.