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Rebecca Fernandez is a Principal Program Manager at Red Hat, leading projects to help the company scale its open culture. She's an Open Organization Ambassador, contributed to The Open Organization book, and maintains the Open Decision Framework. She is interested in the intersection of open source principles and practices, and how they can transform organizations for the better.
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Do people butt-kiss if they don't get credit for it? Not sure if anything will help those folks...
But probably a valuable one. Leaving behind a platform like Facebook, where your friends and coworkers remain, is very difficult. And the ongoing irritations of privacy invasion, information exploitation, and default-to-evil will drive home the point that choice is incredibly valuable.
That said, I am sympathetic to those who complain about Facebook. And not just because I'm one of them. But because typically when you create privacy settings within an application or website, the company does not repeatedly undermine and alter those settings to take advantage of your data for marketing purposes.
I expect when I visit a respectable website that lacks the fine print saying, "We will not share your information with others," but does include a reassuring, "We respect your privacy," that my email address isn't going to be posted on a billboard in Times Square.
Naive, perhaps.