Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 22

FACEBOOK: One Giant Leap Forawrd but... Several Steps Back - p3

The opt-in feature has many
users creeped out. More than
half a million have flocked to
sign a sumofus.com pe on to
have the new gimmick axed
from the app.”
We have already covered Google's
surveillance device in the form of
Google Glass and now we have
Facebook also wan ng to hear all we
do as Google watches all we do. If
either of these companies ever buys
the other or they merge, George
Orwell's sci-fi classic 1984 will seem
like it's today's news.
What does all this emphasis on
watching and listening to us tell us? It

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tells us that informa on gathering is
power. The more you know, the more
you can do to profit in anyway
beneficial to your specific needs.
Is it a coincidence that both these
Facebook tech advances are for mobile
devices, right when the company is
partnering with the largest phone
maker in the world? No, it's not.
Mobile devices are expected to
become more and more “our devices
of choice” for shopping, entertainment
viewing and news. You don't have to
be Einstein to see that if informa on is
power, and power corrupts, then the
pe on circula ng be er reach its
750,000 signatures needed for
Facebook to listen.