You should be scared of Google. I’ve been saying it for years… here are 5 good reasons from Cracked.com
Some people think that ‘Google’ exists to… help them.
These same people think Facebook is a way for people, to, like connect with each other? In their worlds, Schmidt, Page and Zuckerberg are just cool people who got really rich by creating really useful stuff. They don’t care what it means. Jeez, stop getting all serious about it and just, like, use it, mkay?
If you’re one of these people, you couldn’t be more wrong. Sorry to poop your party. Google stopped being about ‘just finding things’ the second Schmidt and Page worked out that being able to know what people were looking for was the goldmine.
The same applies to Facebook. For about five minutes, it was about a guy just trying to be popular with girls. Pretty soon, it was about harnessing that same basic desire in everyone else to create a world that people would pay – a lot – to sell into.
Both these organisations are now so powerful they (along with others like eBay and PayPal) are effectively laws unto themselves, effectively free from control by any body, nation or even groups of nations.
I’ve never visited Cracked.com (strapline ‘America’s only humour & video site since 1958′) before and I came across this piece about why you should be afraid of Google by accident but it’s worth a read.
All I can say is that I hope we’re going to live long enough to regret allowing Google and Facebook to do exactly what they want.


The backlash is already underway. The reputation of TripAdvisor has been sliding downhill for the last year because it cannot (or will not) take more steps to ensure the identity – and accountability – of its reviewers. The resultant misuse of the review system, as hotels attempt to gain an advantage over their competitors, has degraded trustworthiness of the site. And in the news just yesterday, we heard of the UK history Professor who admitted to faking positive reviews for his own books at Amazon (at the same time as slagging off those of his peers).

The idea of ‘social media’ within a firewalled community strikes me as both logical and incongruent.
I really dislike Facebook and its advertisers. Facebook ads are generally exploitative and very often fall apart with the slightest critical inspection.


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