Facebook vs. Suicide Machine -updated

I’m getting more convinced that Facebook is losing its head. Of all the security software, it chose McAfee. Make a search for MC Shield of McAfee and you’ll see how that is a big problem for so many people. Facebook might just be making its security problem worse. Let this be a warning to FB users.

Zuckerberg finally found a strong ally in Arrington of TechCrunch who said, “Privacy is already really, really dead.” Big companies already know the intimate details of our lives via credit cards, GPS devices, cell phones, etc. “We don’t really care about privacy anymore,” he writes at TechCrunch. “And Facebook is just giving us exactly what we want.”

But Derek Thompson isn’t buying any of it at the Atlantic. “Like a Middle Eastern country sitting on top of an ocean of oil, Facebook feels a business-driven pressure to let outsiders (ad companies) drill deep into their reserves, so they can shove Coldplay tickets in front of Coldplay fans and job listings in front of college seniors, and so forth.” -TechCrunch

I wonder why Zuckerberg’s suggestion that ‘social norms online have changed so much that privacy is a thing of the past’, should be an issue. Sensitive bio info shouldn’t be put on social networks in the first place. What makes me wonder is why Facebook is trying to stop Suicide Machine.

By the way, the big difference between FB and Twitter was how Twitter was built with openness at its core.

Suicide Machine is an app that erases Facebook accounts:

‘After successfully helping users unfriend a total of 50,000 Facebook members, Suicide Machine is now being thwarted by the social networking site, which has enforced its own death by guillotine to block the anti-social networking tool at the IP level.

‘The virtual melee is now in full swing, as Facebook is issuing access-restricted errors to Suicide Machine users who attempt to wipe out their Facebook profiles. Suicide Machine was blindsided by the digital beheading, and is rallying the troops with a new message on their website as seen below.

‘Of course, Suicide Machine isn’t ready to roll over and play dead just yet. The site is looking for ways to circumvent the IP block so that users can once again erase their Facebook friends and memories.’ -Mashable

Hot virtual but realistic war isn’t it?