Facebook Rant/Warning

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A warning about trusting Facebook w/ personal information..



ReadWrite – Yes, Randi Zuckerberg, Please Lecture Us About 'Human Decency'


by Dan Lyons. December 26th, 2012.



Excerpts:


Facebook is...


• A company that has made billions by gathering people's personal information and using it to sell ads;
• A company whose original privacy statement was a simple sentence but now is longer than the U.S. Constitution and requires a law degree to understand;
• A company that has continually pushed people to "share" more of their private information in order to use Facebook;
• A company that just four days ago was criticized by the Electronic Frontier Foundation for yet another creepy experiment that would let people pay money to send mail to your inbox, which is just the latest in a long line of criticisms brought by the EFF;
• A company that once claimed it wasn't tracking users when they were logged off, only to turn around and admit that it was, just before someone reported that Facebook in fact had applied for and received a patent on technology that would do exactly that;
• A company that once got caught trying to run a clumsy covert smear campaign against Google;
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[Franglais]

Yes but.. the story started with a picture that one of the persons in the picture did not want published (Randi Zuckerburg). And the person who wrote the article published it as well. Lack of "Human decency" but then he's a journalist.

And now you've brought the article to our attention (which includes the photo) which was perhaps not the best thing to do either.

And now I've replied to the post which makes it more interesting and encourages more people to see it. Oops. Sorry Randi...

[Footski]

I got out of Facebook some time ago as I could see the potential dangers in it. Why it is still used is beyond me!!!!