
They’re confused about why on earth you think you’ve given them more control. My opinion : You gave them less control yet you still seem to think otherwise. Schrage: “Our extensive efforts to provide users greater control over what and how they share appear to be too confusing for some of our more than 400 million users.” In his most recent post (well worth the read), Steve comments on Facebook’s VP of Public Policy Eliot Shrage’s comments on privacy, and summarizes the interview, along with his reaction. He’s spoken extensively about his view of the privacy issue in his blog, Clear Night Sky. He makes his living architecting social media sites and intranets, giving him some pretty good credentials, in my view. My friend and former colleague, Steve Nelson, is one of those people. When I hear trusted friends who know far more about technology than I do raising questions about Facebook’s safety, I listen. That’s a huge franchise, and one to be managed very, very carefully. Users spend 500 billion minutes on the site each month.50 percent of those users log in every day (I’m one of them).More than 400 million registered people on its Web site (as of May 12, 2010).Here are some eye-opening statistics for you: So inconvenient to have hundreds of millions of users and be obligated to keep data private. The war started in January, when Facebook’s CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg said that “ the age of privacy is over.” As Marshall Kirkpatrick said in this blog, “I think Facebook is just saying that because that’s what it wants to be true.” Facebook has stuck its foot into the privacy issue, and users are not happy. I see it in an increasing number of posts and I’m hearing it in conversations over and over again. Yes, we’ll always lose, but we can enjoy the journey – at least for awhile. So I’d like to take a moment to thank all of you who generously support online gaming with real dollars, allowing cheapskates like me to play the latest and greatest for free. You can buy some advantages, but not enough to tempt me. My current addictions, PopCap’s Bejeweled Blitz and Zuma Blitz, truly mindless arcade-type games, are free. And your money fuels Zynga and its gaming counterparts to create more games and more fun. After all, the money you spend is chump change, and in return your online life is richer and easier. Outfits for my avatar? Are you serious?īut I’m clearly in the minority. greenbacks into virtual dollars to buy outfits for my avatar. And during the heyday of Second Life, I refused to put U.S. So I put away my farming tools and retired from Farmville. Pincas, who seems to have been consistently underestimated by Silicon Valley, is laughing all the way to bank, his path fueled by gaming fans who don’t mind plunking down their money to buy an advantage. This month’s Vanity Fair features an article on the remarkable success of Zynga and the genius of founder Mark Pincas. Getting carpal tunnel syndrome from hand-harvesting and planting? For a few bucks, you can buy gasoline for your tractor and let it do the work for you. Want a bigger house? Ka-ching here, and your wish will come true. Tired of your crops dying before you can harvest them? No problem.
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Until I realized that to get ahead, I needed to spend real money on the game. Honestly? My husband thought I had lost my mind. I kept my property in good shape, even decorating it at the holidays, something I would never dream of doing in my real house. I checked in several times a day to virtually weed and harvest my crops. For Farmer Terry, nothing but the cutest little farmhouse would do. I had created quite the lush little farm – surrounded by fruit trees and roses, with horses and chickens and cows all neatly housed in their own barns. I was hooked on Zynga’s Farmville for a long time.
