Facebook e-mail looming

vonhelmet said:
Wait, isn't that Google's business model?

Hands up who has a Googlemail account...
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from what i understand google make money from pretty much just selling advertising along with google searches, any other method of making money for google is much less and almost not worth selling users data as they don't need to have that image.

i don't user facebook so don't know for sure but it's my understanding that facebook only really make money by selling users data.

both i trust as much as each other. i don't think facebook will sign me up to some terrorist site so that i get sent to jail, nor do i tihnk they'll purposefully sell my data in a useable to a company that shouldn't have it.
 
Hotmail all the way...don't trust facebook really.

Been using Hotmail since way back, still got an @msn.com email that they stopped making.
:D
 
Facebook to Launch "Gmail Slayer" November 15
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They can't even run a secure website, how the **** do they think they can host emails. The domain @facebook.com will go straight into my email filter if they do.

MW
 
Loveable Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg called his first few thousand users "dumb *****" for trusting him with their data, published IM transcripts show. Facebook hasn't disputed the authenticity of the transcript.

Zuckerberg was chatting with an unnamed friend, apparently in early 2004. Business Insider, which has a series of quite juicy anecdotes about Facebook's early days, takes the credit for this one.

The exchange apparently ran like this:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuck: Just ask.

Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuck: People just submitted it.

Zuck: I don't know why.

Zuck: They "trust me"

Zuck: Dumb *****
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Won't link the source because it has swearing, not hard to find by Googling though.
 
I'll get in early to secure an address, but only use it if it becomes a popular method of communication and people start asking for it.

I can't say the privacy concerns bother me very much. I couldn't care less if Facebook knows what I'm doing tomorrow or what I'm having for dinner. How is it going to exploit that information commercially? It will either aggregate it with millions of other users' data (in which case I'm not personally identifiable, so I don't care), or it will use it to serve me targeted adverts (which I block anyway, so I don't care).
 
Mattus said:
I'll get in early to secure an address, but only use it if it becomes a popular method of communication and people start asking for it.

I can't say the privacy concerns bother me very much. I couldn't care less if Facebook knows what I'm doing tomorrow or what I'm having for dinner. How is it going to exploit that information commercially? It will either aggregate it with millions of other users' data (in which case I'm not personally identifiable, so I don't care), or it will use it to serve me targeted adverts (which I block anyway, so I don't care).
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i don't understand why you'd chose to use facebook email address based on how many others use it?

also i agee with part two and would like to also add that it also even helps those who don't have adblockers as if they're going to see adverts they may as well see relevant ones related to their interests.
 
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