Google has been somewhat ruthless in mining information for advertising purposes. They've been called on the carpet a number of times. The difference between Facebook and Google is probably a matter of splitting hairs. While hundreds of millions around the globe use Facebook, I haven't heard of anyone suffering any real harm at their hands. Yeah, plenty of whining from time to time, but nothing concrete that I'm aware of. Paul On Jul 12, 2011, at 4:29 PM, Eckehard Wegner wrote:
> OK let me get that straight then, if the ads are anything like those > in the GMail web interface, I am completely comfortable with them, I > even click them quite often so Google are doing a good job of > targeting me. What I don't want is the kind of obnoxious banners > blaring at me like they do on facebook and I also don't trust facebook > to respect my privacy beyond using my data to target ads. IMO facebook > will profile me about everything and anything and then sell that to > anyone who cares to pay for it. I don't believe they have any morals > whatsoever and Google is a little higher on my list when it comes to > corporate ethics.Only a little but nonetheless... big businesses are > inherently difficult to judge. > Cheers > Ecke > > 2011/7/12 David Parsons <parsons.da...@gmail.com>: >> Google doesn't do anything without considering how to sell ads. >> >> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Eckehard Wegner >> <overpenta...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> dunno about the usage of the word friends in English but when I call >>> someone a friend I do so with a sense of pride and obligation. I never >>> liked facebook's use of the word for that very reason, AOL used buddy >>> which I liked a lot better (not to say I liked or even used AOL) >>> >>> the google+ concept of circles that I can name individually is much >>> nicer - I hope they'll stick to don't be evil and keep the place clean >>> of ads and not get into the kind of heavy data mining and callous >>> disregard for privacy as facebook does... >>> >>> 2011/7/11 Keith Whaley <keit...@dslextreme.com>: >>>> steve harley wrote: >>>>> >>>>> On 2011-07-10 14:05 , Matthew Hunt wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Tim Bray<tb...@textuality.com> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Be happy to send those invites, but I need a gmail-flavored address. >>>>>>> -Tim >>>> >>>>>> I just sent invites to Steve & Ecke, no Gmail address required. Maybe >>>>>> Google just doesn't trust their own people with that power yet. :-) >>>> >>>>> thanks Matthew -- it worked (with two attempts), and tied itself to my >>>>> Google account; thanks to Tim for the offer too; now i can figure out >>>>> what it amounts to for me (a Facebookophobe) >>>> >>>> Ahhh, another one. I catered to my grandkid's requests, and joined >>>> Facebook, >>>> some year ago. >>>> Up to now, I've had requests from well over 300 total strangers to be their >>>> friends! >>>> >>>> What IS it with people? >>>> >>>> Why in God's name do they want to make friends with and talk to a complete >>>> stranger? >>>> >>>> Yeah, we both know ONE person, mutually. So bloody what? >>>> >>>> keith >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> PDML@pdml.net >>>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>>> follow the directions. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> David Parsons Photography >> http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com >> >> Aloha Photographer Photoblog >> http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
