Bloodynose for Facebook
Finally, a Facebook group that achieved something! Hundreds of thousands of irate Facebook users made the company back down on telling everyone else what you bought on partner websites — an idea it sprung on users without warning, and without even the ability to opt out of the scheme. The article quotes Chamath Palihapitiya, a vice president at the company:
“Whenever we innovate and create great new experiences and new features, if they are not well understood at the outset, one thing we need to do is give people an opportunity to interact with them,” Palihapitiya was quoted as saying.
“After a while, they fall in love with them.”
Apparently they didn’t. But I can see how they would. Once enough of my friends know I shop for eczema cream, collect bondage accoutrement and just bought a book on living with a heroin addict, I’m sure I’ll come to love the idea.
Prats.
