Beacon Continues to Worry

When Beacon was announced it was being looked upon as revelation in social media space. Todd Defren has tried to look at the whole issue from a PR perspective. I second his opinion, but the fact is what can we do curb this problem.

Some stories that make you think. Here’s is this guy ‘Will’ who had bought ring for his girlfriend  an engagement ring at Overstock.com, and this is what happened after that:

‘Imagine my horror when I learned that Overstock had published the details of my purchase (including a link to the item and its price) on my public Facebook newsfeed, as well as notifications to all of my friends. ALL OF MY FRIENDS, including my girlfriend, and all of her friends, etc…
ALL OF THIS WAS WITHOUT MY CONSENT OR KNOWLEDGE.’

Todd Defren says ‘But hijacking a person’s privacy in order to sound informed when entering or starting a conversation is wrong.’

Exactly, Todd that’s correct but a chunk of Facebook’s new philosophy is centered around this what can blogosphere do?

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