Facebook has gone and done it again. Yet another round of changes has sparked a wave of revulsion that hasn’t been seen since, well, the last time Mark Zuckerberg altered the way you and your information are used by the massively popular social network. To an increasing number of people who think about the Internet, the harmless-sounding notion of the social graph has become little more than a trojan horse that will put all our personal data at risk.
On a personal level, I find it difficult to get terribly worked up about Facebook, and the constant tweaking of various parts of its user interface, privacy settings and so forth no longer perturbs me the way it once did. I don’t use it that often and, when I do, I operate with the understanding that having any semblance of privacy is just wishful thinking, if not downright delusion. Nevertheless, there’s been enough outcry that I think it helps to create a taxonomy. Herewith, four varieties of Facebook revolt.
