Vaotix's comments

Vaotix | 9 years ago | on: How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead

Wow. Thanks for sharing. This was beautifully written. A tragic occurrence that you seemed to have handled well.

Vaotix | 9 years ago | on: How to Tell a Mother Her Child Is Dead

Damn. I'm so sorry for your loss. Can't even imagine what you must be going through.

Vaotix | 9 years ago | on: EpiPen CEO: Blame the 'broken' system, not me

I mean, considering the FDA pushed out their competitors and made it hard for new ones to come to market, she's got a bit of a point. They rose the price because they could. It's not capitalism. It's not anything besides a broken system.

Vaotix | 14 years ago | on: Facebook is scaring me

Interesting post.

While I have nothing against making it easier for people to share their lives or interesting things they come across, I want these things to be opt-in, not opt-out. Facebook has a history not really giving a crap about user privacy. And honestly, Facebook isn't a company I want to trust very personal information to. That's why my FB profile is pretty much only bare bones stuff and a few pictures.

I prefer Google's approach with G+ - your information is only shared with those who you explicitly allow sharing to. And they never automatically share something. You're in full control. If you're making an online identity, that's the way it should be. There shouldn't be opportunity for things to get out of your control. And I fear that the general public won't realize this is an issue until it's too late.

I'd like to point to another article that was posted here earlier: http://public.numair.com/2011_fbfool.html

Now, you can just dismiss the guy as bitter or whatever, but he does have a point. Facebook isn't the company you'd want managing your online identity. I have no problem with competition, but I have issue when one of those competitors acts sketchy and doesn't have the users' best interests at heart. It's even worse when the people either don't care or don't realize it.