It’s not much but it’s longer than a regular tweet.
I’m referring mostly to the recent Facebook scandals and whatnot, which I actually know very little about because it sounds like a whole lot of nothing. Now, I’m also aware that it could be a huge something, I just fail to see that being too true, and while it is of course impossible to know without actually reading about it, well, that is simply me not doing what is potentially good for me, plain and simple. So be aware this is the outlook of someone without benefit of actual information.
See, a lot more than a tweet.
All I’m really saying is that I don’t know anything about the Facebook privacy issues and if what I’ve seen happen is a result of it, I don’t really care either. Naturally I’m referring to one isolated example which probably has no bearing on the rest of reality.
I’m using Pandora Internet Radio to find new artists I might be interested in by creating radio stations based on songs or artists I enjoy currently. Today, a little bar pops down from the top of the window and says that Pandora is now utilizing information from my Facebook profile to better suit my listening experience to me.
I don’t know how it did this. I don’t know what nefarious channels had to be traversed to link my Facebook profile to my Pandora radio station without me even logging into Pandora properly. But if this is the unreasonable dissemination of personal information people are up in arms about, I have to say, I don’t mind.
In fact, this led me to find out one of my favorite bands had a new album I’d been unaware of which I popped right over to iTunes to buy. This, I believe, is some kind of targeted marketing scheme. And I don’t mind that either.
If it becomes overbearing, or if they manage to know things they shouldn’t know or I’d feel better with them not knowing (and nothing exactly comes to mind immediately) then I’ll probably become upset. Until then, the privacy issue doesn’t push any of my buttons too badly.
However. If I did not have a job and money, it could lead to small time piracy. But I probably wouldn’t do that because I let myself believe that my purchase actually matters to the artist somehow.
So. Yup.