"Apple might be able to salvage the relationship with Facebook, but it's pretty clear that Facebook's relationship with users has hit the rocks."
I very much doubt that. Statistically no one will leave FBook over this.
I very much doubt that. Statistically no one will leave FBook over this.
If that's really true, it's very unsettling. If this doesn't trip a significant number of users' "not worth it" detectors, what would?
Then I changed my email address back to what I want it to be, and I have ceased caring. I will continue using facebook to coordinate bar meetups with my friends.
I've always had a very healthy mistrust of facebook, based on their past actions, and I never let facebook sync up with anything else I use (and I don't use services that only authenticate via facebook). They simply can't be trusted with anything important; not because they are incompetent, but because they have no moral compass that prevents them from screwing users over.
This is just one more reason for me to continue to silo facebook off into its own world, where it knows nothing about the rest of my life, particularly the really important stuff.
You're the product. You're inventory.
Frankly, I didn't trust them much before: I'm sure they were mining it, which is not something I would explicitly consent to. However, now I no longer trust them to not break it, so I've removed their access to it entirely.
When you upset your users, you drive them away. They use your product less, and associate with you negatively.
The more this happens, the more people stop posting and sharing, and everyone simply stops using the site.
Remember most people on MySpace didn't delete their accounts, they just stopped using the service.
All of this could lead people to use FB less, which is is exactly the opposite of what they were intending.