Facebook: Beacon Shmeacon
I'm trying really hard to care about this whole Facebook Beacon imbroglio -- the social network launched a new advertising-ish service whereby your friends could see what you had recently bought, and then privacy advocates promptly lost their minds -- and I can't seem to find the energy to get worked up.
C'mon, it isn't surprising Facebook wants to make money on its social network service via your purchase data. If you don't like the way it wants to do it, don't use the service. Getting hung up on whether the service was supposed to be opt-in, opt-out, etc., strikes me as largely beside the point: this is the sort of thing you should be expecting from a commercial social network.
Apparently I'm pretty much alone in feeling that way, as the following Techmeme screenshot shows, with wild-eyed ranting more or less the rule.
