Is Facebook the new Gestapo? How much information are they getting from you and are you happy to give that to them?
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Information is power they say. And if that is true, Facebook is soon going to be ruling this planet.
When people sign up to Facebook, they usually do it because someone has told them “Facebook is awesome.” In Facebook you can keep up with your friends, share thoughts and pictures and chat and so on. All nice things for sure, but have you ever thought how much information you’re giving away to them while having fun. I bet you even those intelligence agencys with fancy three letter-names don’t have as much information about people as Facebook does.
Think about it: You wake up, go to Facebook, write how you’re feeling tired, and how you have a dentist appointment later. After the dentist you go to work and open Facebook, tell your friends how your boss just gave you a hard time. And how your project isn’t coming together as it should’ve. After work, you go home and…Facebook-time. You send a funny picture you took the other night when your friend Larry got a tattoo that didn’t quite turn out as he had hoped. Then you ponder upon which movie to see with your wife later tonight. Coming home, you tell Facebook you loved the movie and you’re off to bed and good night.
Let’s see, you basicly wrote everything you did that day on Facebook. Like on a diary. WRONG. Diary is personal, diary isn’t written to a place like internet where everything you ever put online, stays online.
Privacy is something people consider important, but what if you don’t know you’re giving it up. Next time you tell your friends how you’re planning on a holiday to Fidzi, think about it. Could there be anyone else who would like to have that information? Maybe a travel agency, they’d like to know for sure. Chatting with your friends about which television to buy. I bet Sony likes to know when people plan to buy a television. List goes on.
To sum it up, next time you open Facebook and plan to write something, take a second. Think, are you really comfortable giving up that information. That may come to haunt you in the future.
Mon, Sep 21, 2009, by Johnathonx
Social Networks