Sometimes a company goes from media darling to media whipping boy seemingly overnight. Case in point: Facebook, which seems to have changed from essential networking tool to evil violator of privacy in the blink of an eye, thanks to its “Beacon” advertising platform. If you read the tech press and social media blogs, it’s become hard to avoid stories about how this is a PR disaster and a real stumble for the company. One of Fortune’s columnists has even written Facebook’s obituary, and the company has backed down from its initial design and done some public apologizing.
But you know, the media and the blogs aren’t the universe. Like any other social network, Facebook is made up of its users, not pundits. So let’s ask you, the users. If you’re on Facebook, have you followed this story? Has it made any difference in your Facebook use? Are you thinking of cutting back, opting out, or leaving entirely? Or is this just the media echo chamber, working itself up over something that real users don’t really care about?
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