Facebook completely violated the ethical standards all psychological researchers are beholden to. Every university study passes a Human Subject Committee. Facebook simply didn’t care. Their customers are merely fodder for their purposes.
Google killed Google Health. I would not worry about them, worry more about all of the corporations collecting big data and figuring out how to use it to make money. In a way, Facebook is easy, if you don’t like it don’t use it. No one makes anyone sign up for the social sites. A company who uses a rewards card can find out a lot more about you or a credit card company knows everything you buy and do.
More and more businesses today want workers to communicate by Email, rather than walking to another’s cubicle, or office. Teens seem enamoured with texting. Sales on the Internet rise every year. Soon, AMAZON.COM’s little whirlybirds will be delivering many packages, using GPS. (Goodbye UPS, FEDX jobs!) My own brothers and sisters mainly communicate on Facebook. Job-seeking is done on the computers today. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, supermarkets install ever more self-check-out registers. You can buy your groceries on-line, and have them delivered to your house/condo/apt. State auto Registries want you to apply or renew on their web-sites.Insurance companies won’t even pick up the phone anymore: just send you into a labyrinth of choices, ending with a frustrating slamming down of the phone!
We are building ourselves (or, having built for us?) a very impersonal, isolated world. And we wonder why so many flip out today!
Motivemagus almost 10 years ago
Facebook completely violated the ethical standards all psychological researchers are beholden to. Every university study passes a Human Subject Committee. Facebook simply didn’t care. Their customers are merely fodder for their purposes.
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member almost 10 years ago
Google killed Google Health. I would not worry about them, worry more about all of the corporations collecting big data and figuring out how to use it to make money. In a way, Facebook is easy, if you don’t like it don’t use it. No one makes anyone sign up for the social sites. A company who uses a rewards card can find out a lot more about you or a credit card company knows everything you buy and do.
moosemin almost 10 years ago
More and more businesses today want workers to communicate by Email, rather than walking to another’s cubicle, or office. Teens seem enamoured with texting. Sales on the Internet rise every year. Soon, AMAZON.COM’s little whirlybirds will be delivering many packages, using GPS. (Goodbye UPS, FEDX jobs!) My own brothers and sisters mainly communicate on Facebook. Job-seeking is done on the computers today. Wal-Mart, Home Depot, Lowes, supermarkets install ever more self-check-out registers. You can buy your groceries on-line, and have them delivered to your house/condo/apt. State auto Registries want you to apply or renew on their web-sites.Insurance companies won’t even pick up the phone anymore: just send you into a labyrinth of choices, ending with a frustrating slamming down of the phone!
We are building ourselves (or, having built for us?) a very impersonal, isolated world. And we wonder why so many flip out today!