Facebook's Latest Shenanigans

GladGradDad
Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:33:32 +0000

Facebook is all about mining the information you post and and then selling that information to other companies and advertisers. There’s no free lunch - that’s how FB makes it’s money since users don’t pay any money to use the service.

The bottom line - don’t expect anything you post on FB (or anywhere else) to be 100% private. It’s naive to think FB is simply a philanthropic organization providing a service of providing a social network - it’s actually a business looking to profit from the users.

If you’re careful about what you post and don’t have false expectations of privacy, then it might make sense to use FB.

They’re not the only ones who scan the content - so does Google via scanning your emails on gmail as well as tracking where you went on the internet for targeted ads, so do others. Hopefully everyone knows their gmail content is being scanned programmatically and use it accordingly.