{"id":919,"date":"2009-04-24T11:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/?p=919"},"modified":"2009-04-24T11:11:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-24T15:11:27","slug":"facebook-not-so-dirty-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/facebook-not-so-dirty-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Not So Dirty After All?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright.\u00a0 Not to speak too soon here, but <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/2009\/04\/facebook-is-so-dirty\/\" target=\"_blank\">maybe I was wrong about Facebook yesterday<\/a>.\u00a0 And If so, I&#8217;ll gladly eat my words.<\/p>\n<p>Read this: <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.facebook.com\/blog.php?post=79146552130\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Results of the Inaugural Facebook Site Governance Vote<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As always, the proof will be in the pudding.\u00a0 But this sounds to me like FB is going to go with the majority of the 0.32% of active users that voted &#8212; and adopt the new user agreement (tossing out the Evil Terms of Service).<\/p>\n<p>While there&#8217;s talk in the post about their disappointment at the low turnout, they do acknowledge this is a Faceboook First (as well as an internet first), and are considering lowering the 30% threshold necessary for any future vote to be binding.<\/p>\n<p>First of all, I offer my non-binding, conditional apology to Facebook.\u00a0 Maybe they&#8217;re actually interested in protecting their users&#8217; rights after all.<\/p>\n<p>Second, I still maintain this vote was not nearly as transparent as FB believes it was.\u00a0 The language was confusing.\u00a0 The voting period was too short.\u00a0 And there should&#8217;ve been more user notification (eg. &#8216;Hey! You haven&#8217;t voted yet! Only one day left to vote!&#8217;) if they wanted this whole process to actually be more democratic.<\/p>\n<p>Still, from the looks of it, at least their heart is in the right place&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright.\u00a0 Not to speak too soon here, but maybe I was wrong about Facebook yesterday.\u00a0 And If so, I&#8217;ll gladly eat my words. Read this: Results of the Inaugural Facebook Site Governance Vote As always, the proof will be in the pudding.\u00a0 But this sounds to me like FB is going to go with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22],"tags":[373,375],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-ramblings","tag-facebook","tag-terms-of-service"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":921,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jeffclarke.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}