The Friday#: Facebook vs Google vs Privacy

January 27th, 2012. Posted by Hannah Emanuel

The Sizzle: FBI social plans. The Fri-Up: Google vs Facebook. The Sauce: ’Find another idiot’

The Sizzle

The Fri-Up

The two corporations we most love to hate collaborated in ‘privacy updates’ this week. The first, when usually friendly Facebook, threatened users that their pasts would be horifically exposed. In what feels slightly like a Facebook obituary it was announced that Zuckerberg (et al) would decide which were the most important events of your life, if users refused to spent the weekend creating an elaborate Timeline. (Should you ask Faceboook – they didn’t have a life before Facebook.)

Also this week, Google has told users that it is simplifying its privacy policies by getting rid of 60 of them in exchange for one you have signed up for my trying to access your gmail this morning!

The Washington Post seems to think Android users should be most wary of Google now but which is more alarming according to the social media demographic?

Here we look at them side by side hour by over the last couple of days:

We can see the rumblings on the Facebook timeline appear first – as their announcement did. Google’s privacy policy quickly picks up the chat, overtaking concerns as we head into Friday. After which, people resume worrying about their Facebook timelines and their murky pasts circa 2006.

The Sauce

Something for the weekend:

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