My day job is designing and developing websites, but in my off time, I like to build all kinds of things, including Ruby gems, iPhone apps, and Alexa skills.
Trust is huge... and Facebook is failing on all fronts!
Like you said, I think big tech companies definitely need to give people more control over what data is collected. I think some sort of detailed 'information profile' page would be ideal, somewhere you can go to check boxes for exactly what information the company can collect, and see exactly why they want to collect it, how they plan on using it, and in what ways it benefits you the user to give it up.
As far as the time savings argument goes, I would say social media is low on the scale of services that actually save you time. Amazon, Google, Uber, and Apple all have services and products that very clearly save you time, Facebook is a bit more of a gray area. The only real place I think Facebook speeds up my day to day life is the 'Login with Facebook' button which saves me time when signing up for new accounts, but of course Google has their own (probably more trustworthy) alternative to this. To your point about targeted ads, I guess it's not really about "saving time", but just "wasting it in a slightly more productive way."
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Trust is huge... and Facebook is failing on all fronts!
Like you said, I think big tech companies definitely need to give people more control over what data is collected. I think some sort of detailed 'information profile' page would be ideal, somewhere you can go to check boxes for exactly what information the company can collect, and see exactly why they want to collect it, how they plan on using it, and in what ways it benefits you the user to give it up.
As far as the time savings argument goes, I would say social media is low on the scale of services that actually save you time. Amazon, Google, Uber, and Apple all have services and products that very clearly save you time, Facebook is a bit more of a gray area. The only real place I think Facebook speeds up my day to day life is the 'Login with Facebook' button which saves me time when signing up for new accounts, but of course Google has their own (probably more trustworthy) alternative to this. To your point about targeted ads, I guess it's not really about "saving time", but just "wasting it in a slightly more productive way."