Comments on: People trust the internet but lie to it anyway

By: Jonny

Jonny — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:56:33 +0000

I think so long as people continue to ensure we only Trust those who who have an interest in exploiting Their Own – whilst making sure we never listen to anything said by someone who has no motive to deceive us (you gotta watch for that maniacal and illogical desire which we all know exists in everyone who PROFITS when they offend or hurt our imaginary feelings), then everything will turn out just fine.

By: infinidiv

infinidiv — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:56:45 +0000

And that leaves the fact that in the US more people feel they have a right to something, but panic anytime the words social services is used.

None of this should stay the way it is… but I think the problem is less in how people act based on what is out there, but that too much still a gray area with no clear rights and responsibilities laid out, either for the user or the provider.

By: infinidiv

infinidiv — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 08:52:32 +0000

I am not all that surprised by any of these finding, to be honest. It is not contradictory to see the good and use of the Internet, but be aware of the fact that there are individuals out there ready to make negative use of anything they can get a hold of. The discussion of the ridiculous complexity and length of privacy and use policies, both on-line and for software in general, has been discussed for a long time. Reading all these policies in detail leaves you with only 2 options: either limit yourself to about 10% of the services available (which would mean all those companies shooting themselves in the foot as they reduce their own customer-base) or stop any other activity I perform in a day so that I can spend that time on reading those policies. Neither makes any sense, and since those texts are in legalese, most people wouldn’t understand what they are reading in any case.