IMO if there's a single social network to worry about [going evil], it's LinkedIn. It's a phisher's wet dream right behind genealogy sites, and the data they have access to is worth magnitudes more than your run-of-the-mill "social" data.
Sure, you can better target me for a small-time sale because you saw that I "liked" some nuanced TV show on FB, but that's chump change compared to having pretty much unfettered access to 1000's of executives....execs who write checks on a monthly basis that are larger than what most households spend in a year.
There's also the worry that if they become a sort of de facto hiring platform, then we'll be forced to ante up for a premium membership in order to simply be considered for an interview.
Warranted fears or not, I don't trust them and never will.
Sure, you can better target me for a small-time sale because you saw that I "liked" some nuanced TV show on FB, but that's chump change compared to having pretty much unfettered access to 1000's of executives....execs who write checks on a monthly basis that are larger than what most households spend in a year.
There's also the worry that if they become a sort of de facto hiring platform, then we'll be forced to ante up for a premium membership in order to simply be considered for an interview.
Warranted fears or not, I don't trust them and never will.