trend among hipster techie

quiting facebook, is the new trend. newsweek just analyzed it few months ago. as argued in the article, nobody knows about such trend. especially, people who never read tech blogs. why they quit facebook ? according to the article, it is actually caused by such significant change on privacy policy of facebook.

Losing a few people won’t hurt Facebook, which has more than 400 million registered members, most of them oblivious to the debate over privacy. In fact, I suspect Facebook will end up being to this decade what Microsoft was to the 1990s—an ever-more-powerful company with tentacles that reach into everything.

and i just always agree with such argument. facebook won’t hurt, but it will hurt some people every time the company change their security policy. facebook will always free, but people pay the fun with their privacy.

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