[pickledoyster]

Creating a product for creeps is so on brand for a company founded by a creep.

[4bpp]

Shouldn't Google (Glass) get the credit for the idea?

The way Facebook gets singled out for "creepiness" in a world full of bad actors is pretty ridiculous, and actually makes it easier for the others to keep flying under the radar.

[Gigachad]

Google glass was widely hated for this with the term “glasshole” floating around the news at the time. But it was also never sold as a consumer product so most people never even saw one.

[bartread]

Does it get singled out though? TikTok gets no end of flak. YouTube, as many parents will be aware, is full to the brim with creepy content. Kik has been widely reviled as a cesspool for CP sharing. And these are just a few examples.

Facebook gets a lot of (deserved) flak, but it’s hardly singled out.

[AnonC]

Alongside Google Glass around the same time (in 2013) was Samsung’s creepy watch with a camera and a creepy ad for that. [1]

[1]: https://newsfeed.time.com/2013/12/23/samsung-smartwatch-date...

[bitlax]

Google is also creepy.

[kotaKat]

It's only a matter of time before someone gets "OK Glass(ed)" after saying "Hey Meta" out loud in a crowd.

[usrnm]

The Internet was the best thing that ever happened to the so called "creeps", should we get rid of it as well?

[rsolva]

The early internet was created and inhabited by nerds, which praticed playful creativity on interdependent networks and open protocols. Cooperation and collaboration was at the core.

Then the creeps arrived, drunk on sudden power and the promise of quick cash, and started capturing and consolidating online activity into 'platforms', or walled gardens if you will. These where void of the creative expression of the free and open web and streamlined every interaction into a very narrow and neatly defined world.

These creeps started abusing their power early on to snoop on peoples activity, pictures and conversations — which would be viewed as totally unacceptable behavior in the offline world — and went on to build the worlds most sinister and cynical manipulation machine.

Creeps are antithetical to the spirit of the early internet and the open web and they are actively working agains the ethos of open protocols and playful creativity!

[touwer]

Whattabouttttt

[more_corn]

Yes please

[gdulli]

Maybe?

[graemep]

Really? Email, IRC, old fashioned informational websites, usenet, FTP, ssh etc. are for creeps?

It was taken over and perverted by creeps.