Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Facebook cares about you...
...for a price, that is. Yes, that's right. Facebook cares about the safety of its members, so it has formed a partnership with McAfee Internet Security. It wants to make the site safer for users, at a price. While Facebook says it will not be making a profit from this, that doesn't mean McAfee won't. This extra security is available to subscribers who want, and are able, to pay for it. They also have a "special tool to clean [your] harddrives...after a malicious attack".
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This is a BRILLIANT move by MIS. I mean security for a price is priceless :)
Yeah, I know that was terrible but still, Facebook members won't care about security anyway. It's Facebook for crying out loud. Security and privacy don't exist in that context.
Who knows, maybe they'll make a profit anyway, off of someone who cares perhaps.
I'm glad Facebook has formed a partnership with McAfee Internet Security. There's a lot of hackers and online predators these days so online security is necessary. However, if the extra security is too expensive I doubt many people will purchase the extra security.
I get all these notifications from McAfee to run a scan on my lap top. It's annoying.
While the idea sounds good and reasonable, I doubt many people are going to purchase this internet security. In general, people don't want to spend money unless it is absolutely necessary. Furthermore, facebook seems to be working pretty well as it is and so I bet people are thinking, "why change what is already working fine." We are still in a recession, so many people will probably not be willing to spend money on something like this. This internet security company probably paid facebook a lot of money to advertise for people to subscribe. Everything is all about business and making money.
McAfee is probably trying to use Facebook as a way to earn tons of money. I'm sure not a lot of people will purchase it but the pop ups will come like no other.
This actually kind of worries me. The cleaning service after a malicious attack kind of hints that McAfee will try to cause a malicious attack. Maybe that's just me. However, in our capitalist society, almost everything has a price.
-Henry Zhang
If Facebook is afraid of "viruses and scams... [that] have drummed up pages' worth of bad press for the social network," then they should be doing something more to limit said viruses and scams. You know, rather than making users pay their own money.
But then again, we live in a capitalist society, and everyone tries to take advantage of everyone else, if they can pull a profit doing so.
I do have one question though. What happens to facebook users who already have McAfee? Is McAfee/Facebook going to make them pay extra just to get additional coverage? Or is the security that McAfee proposes simply the same coverage that any other internet security provides? (I guess that was more than one question...)
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