I agree with the gist of what the article is saying.<p>For example, I can understand if a person from Tibet is upset about the Groupon commercial, but a person from America? You're not upset! You just want people to think you're upset. You're not even from Tibet! Get over it. (If you are from Tibet and found it tasteless, then you have the right to be upset.)<p>People are too involved with other peoples lives, and are always trying to find something to complain about.<p>The commercial was funny. Life's too short to get all pissy over a commercial.
I think the challenge with Facebook, is that a large number of people using it don't understand what they are sharing. What they share about themselves is really none of my business. What I do need to be mindful of is:<p>A lot of people, including those who get paid to work in IT roles and are supposedly of a technical mindset, don't understand what information they are sharing about themselves and their friends when they interact with FB applications<p>This is different from real life, where most people will evaluate what they share about you with 3rd parties. In the case of FB applications, many people don't understand what is happening, and thus the evaluation phase is completely bypassed. Even if you would put your life in somebodies hands in the real world, you have to apply a different set of criteria to that same person / decision in the virtual world.