[smc-discuss] Facebook Manipulating Users' Newsfeeds

[Kunjappu Abhijith.R]

Exactly



On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <
sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Ashik Salahudeen <aashiks at aashiks.in>
> wrote:
> > Facebook and Twitter are not public service companies. You choose to use
> > them .
>
> (I am not sure if the discussion is off-topic for this specific list).
> The interesting bit is the conflation of public service and utilities.
> Social networks tend to provide a wide gamut of value to their users.
> The downside is that the users who choose to partake of that value
> mistake the networks as utilities ie. cannot be done without.
>
>
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