In fact, not only are users not leaving Facebook, but the platform is actually growing and reporting record profits after a year of almost weekly stories involving its ability to secure the private data of its users.
Incredibly, there was a time when a company that kept suffering non-stop massive security breaches would likely go under as users left in droves and inundated the company with lawsuits.
Today each wave of press coverage documenting Facebooks latest breach is met with a burst of indignant statements from politicians and the public, but after a few days things predictably go right back to normal, without a single change or consequence.
Despite hundreds upon hundreds of millions of users having their passwords exposed to Facebook employees millions upon millions of times in the companys latest breach, no-one is going to stop using Facebook.
It seems even our search interest didnt last long, with Google Trends suggesting worldwide English-language searches for the story similarly faded fast.
As the single most influential social network worldwide, Facebook exercises immense influence over technology standards and the movement of industry.
As Facebook teaches society across the world to no longer care about cybersecurity, the worlds companies will recognize that their costly investments in securing their user data may no longer be necessary.
After all, why spend vast sums of money protecting your networks and databases when there is no penalty for the theft of user data and users dont actually care anymore and are happy to continue using your products no matter how many times you expose their most intimate information or even passwords to the world?
If not, perhaps it is time to simply publicly acknowledge that cybersecurity is no longer of any importance and blindly leap into our new security-less digital future.
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