Facebook again

[cjsmith]

Swiped from LinkedIn.

"Facebook gave members' personal data to some of the world’s largest technology companies for years, says The New York Times. Netflix and Spotify were given the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages, and Microsoft’s Bing search engine was allowed to see the names of virtually all Facebook users’ friends without consent. Facebook says none of the partnerships violated users’ privacy or a 2011 consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission."

I predict this won't make a difference to anybody except some lawyers; certainly not to the users. If I were a decent fiction writer I'd set a story in the near future US on the day after the election, with people slowly discovering in horror that somehow the new President-elect is Zuckerberg... and that yeah, he DID shoot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue once.

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[cjsmith]

The story has one guy (it has to be a guy; I'll leave the reasons as an exercise for the reader) who says that the populace as a whole is somewhat complicit. His "Friends" pretend to agree with him but sidle away from him at gatherings. He won't shut up about it, though, and by the end of the piece he is brutally killed by an angry mob. Story ends with all going dark as he dies.

I'll call it Friendship.