After reading the article, i dislike Bing even more than before. Bing isn't as good a search engine as Google and now they want to include people's status updates as part of their search results, what is the sense in that?
Many of my friends do not like using tweeter nor do they plan on using it any time soon. However Facebook is loved by many but because cops and school officials can find your pictures uploaded/notes/wall posts and may hold it against you, which have caused quite a few amount of people to stop uploading.
Here's a current case regarding students uploading pictures to facebook and is now in trouble with the school -- http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/11/teen-pics/
Therefore would anyone want to be charged with underage drinking or any criminal charges simply because you posted your night of fun and mayhem on Facebook as a way of expressing yourself and updating people around you? And now that Bing is going to search your status updates and give it out as search results will definitely cause more people to get in trouble with the law. Granted that there's the privacy function where you can avoid being searched by privatizing everything but like that teen's case (above), their friends found those pictures and they sent it around and was ultimately sent to the school principal -- Would you want that to happen to you? I would hope not.
I guess I wouldnt use facebook as much anymore...
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That's an interesting point - people may feel violated or may actually be posting things that they don't want certain people to see. If you're posting about illegal things you're doing, this may be a problem in and of itself, but it changes the scope if people will have an easier time searching for it.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely agree. This new type of deal will raise a lot of privacy issues. Where do you draw the line now with your facebook posts? First it was said that coaches and colleges are looking at peoples facebook pages but now search engines have info on you as well? Where do we draw the line?
ReplyDeleteI agree. There are probably a lot of people out there like you (including me) who would use facebook/twitter less if I knew that I would get in trouble with the law. Perhaps this deal isn't such a smart move for twitter/fb.
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