Facebook drama

This isn't about sharing personal drama on Facebook. It's about Zuckerberg being called to testify about privacy concerns in front of congress. It's all political theatre to me. Most of the senators grilling Zuck have no idea what Facebook even is. The jokes and memes about this going through Twitter and Facebook are hilarious. Even though he is not really a sympathetic character (I refuse to have sympathy for anyone who is worth 60 billion dollars) I feel a little sorry for Zuckerberg.

No one is forcing you to be on Facebook, and you aren't paying money for it. If you don't like the terms and conditions that Facebook has, than don't go on it. Granted, I accept that it's not that simple. In todays society most young people need a Facebook account. It's viewed as weird if you don't have one. Sure, no one is forcing you to be accepted and yes, we all know people under 40 who don't have a Facebook account. However my point stands. The majority of us do have one and yes, at least at first you'll wonder why someone under 40 doesn't have an account. As you can see, I'm in the middle about this. You don't need a Facebook, it's free, but it's still sort of odd if you don't have one.

The Facebook privacy violations are disturbing, but did they violate the law? Did they violate their terms and conditions? If you agreed to give up your privacy to a certain degree, what right do you have to complain?  There is also a huge difference between a private, for profit company sharing your information and a government spying on you and violating your privacy-how quickly we forget, but the government lecturing anyone on privacy violations is highly amusing.

So I'm in the middle about this. I'm eager to see how it'll be resolved.