Comments on: Would you cut Facebook a privacy pass if it paid you? http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/ Tue, 21 May 2013 03:04:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dave Goldblatt http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-809049 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:14:44 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-809049 Facebook does NOT sell your information. Please correct this in your article. See https://www.facebook.com/help/?faq=152637448140583

]]> By: Peter Miller http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-803567 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:13:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-803567 How ironic reading this after earlier today reading GigaOm’s privacy policy that states basically, they are in bed with Facebook/linkedIn… Why would GigaOm need such vast swatches of my personal info if they didn’t profit off it? They write articles like this and simultaneously play both sides of the privacy fence. Feels wrong.

]]> By: Thomas Sachson http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802821 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:54:20 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802821 I think people will always respond very favorably to services that recognize that their patronage (viewing ads, buying content, etc.) is worthy of some form of reverse compensation. One area that is begging for attention is bandwidth cost (especially on mobile devices where one gets hits with large overage fees for “blowing their data cap” each month). We think that apps accessing data from popular sites/services should be “pre-bundled” with free bandwidth since this is a great way to reward end-users for viewing / renting / buying online content (just like the 1-800 voice model). The technology is just being rolled out (called “FreeBand”) and we think the mobile carriers will be offering such a service to end-users shortly. Also, by providing “free delivery” of bytes, it is a much simpler and immediate form of compensation than paying cash or points (although not mutually exclusive either).

]]> By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802588 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:25:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802588 Actual financial rewards very likely would be too expensive, and I think I noted as much in the article. Although, there could be a clever way of doing it if Facebook could somehow anonymously attribute revenue gains to individual users — for certain value-added activities such as creating a Sponsored Story — and pay back a fraction of the additional revenue.

It’s more likely that a frequent-flyer-type program could work, where Facebook, partners and users feed off each other.

]]> By: Derrick Harris http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802586 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 04:18:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802586 That’s another idea I suggested earlier. If free services are no longer worth the presumed invasions of privacy, it might have to come to that.

]]> By: John http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802422 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:09:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802422 The entire reason that companies like Facebook are capable of generating so much money is that they take the information of half a billion people. A single person is almost worthless to Facebook, but when added together, all of those almost worthless sources of information become highly profitable. To pay each one of those people back with sums even as nominal as those suggested by this article would spell bankruptcy for Facebook.

]]> By: Nick http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802374 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:28:29 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802374 No. Never. Nada. Zilch. Absolutely not. Did I make my point clear? No way, Jose!

]]> By: whymusti http://gigaom.com/2012/01/27/would-you-cut-facebook-a-privacy-pass-if-it-paid-you/#comment-802344 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 15:10:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=477262#comment-802344 Actually, I’d rather pay them for a premium, privacy protected experience.

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