What happens if an app for job seekers texts your boss? What if a casual hookup site texts your new girlfriend--even though you signed up a year before meeting her? What happens if your app calls an old person and they crack a hip trying to answer a phone--when everyone that knows them personally knows not to call until they're awake and their caretaker is in?
These may sound far-fetched, and we all mostly don't pretend we're as disciplined as structural engineers, but "we do it for the money lulz" is a shitty and stupid argument.
I'm okay with this. I'd rather be calculating than have my head in the sand about the business models of social networking what-have-you applications.
>What if a casual hookup site texts your new girlfriend--even though you signed up a year before meeting her?
While I don't and won't have to experience this, your imagined relationship suffers more from lack of trust and honesty than "some dumb app does some dumb, annoying thing."
>"we do it for the money lulz" is a shitty and stupid argument.
Don't Straw Man me. If my code was going to be used for something I perceive as evil, I'd leave the job.
Our industry doesn't need yet another pointless, embarrassing ethics/integrity campaign when the people writing the code don't care.
What happens if an app for job seekers texts your boss? What if a casual hookup site texts your new girlfriend--even though you signed up a year before meeting her? What happens if your app calls an old person and they crack a hip trying to answer a phone--when everyone that knows them personally knows not to call until they're awake and their caretaker is in?
These may sound far-fetched, and we all mostly don't pretend we're as disciplined as structural engineers, but "we do it for the money lulz" is a shitty and stupid argument.