I Left Facebook – Where Your Privacy is No Longer Private
April 21st, 2010. Published under Business Scams, Scams. No Comments.
Over the last couple of months Facebook has slowly been making changes that are slowly eroding Facebook users privacy, all in the name of greed. I used to laugh when people referred to the folks at Facebook as being “Corporate Money Whores”, after reading about the latest changes at Facebook I am inclined to agree with that general opinion. Facebook has become nothing more than a money generating machine at the expenses of it’s users (aka YOU). The latest changes exposes a good bit of users profiles even if they are marked private. Yesterday, Facebook announced an awesome new feature that lets anyone see your current city, hometown, education, work, likes, and interests, even if you’ve set your profile to private. Will this benefit individual users and their friends? Not unless the only thing you remember about your dear friend is that they enjoy leather-play and you’re willing to scroll through reams of headshots to find them. No, this new privacy erosion is for the real clients of Facebook: advertisers, and the data-mining minions that toil on their behalf. However, there are two ways to be totally private. – Consumerist Once upon a time, Facebook could be used simply to share your interests and information with a select small community of your own choosing. As Facebook’s privacy policy once promised , “No personal information that you submit to Facebook will be available to any user of the Web Site who does not belong to at least one of the groups specified by you in your privacy settings.” Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work, and likes and interests” will now be transformed into “connections,” meaning that they will be shared publicly. If you don’t want these parts of your profile to be made public, your only option is to delete them.” – Electronic Frontier Foundation Never mind the fact that you can’t block all Facebook apps at one time, but must block each one individually, ad nauseum. Never mind the fact that Facebook “social games” aren’t social at all (other than pestering your Facebook friends with updates), and try to extract money from you and give you nothing in return but some coinage that can’t be spent on anything but the game itself (social games are a billion dollar industry). Have you noticed that many games are essentially the same with only a slight name change? You, my friends are Facebook’s “Cash Cows”. Yesterday I deleted my Facebook account as I am tired of Facebook monetizing me to such a degree that I no longer feel comfortable or safe on the site. Facebook has become a huge disappointment that at one time had a lot of potential. Now that Facebook takes money over ensuring users safety and privacy I will no longer be a member. You only have three choices: deactivate your account in your Facebook account settings, sign up for Facebook and set your birth date to be under 18 or delete your Facebook account permanently (Facebook website) as I have. If you are tired of Facebook making money at the expense of your privacy I encourage you to dump Facebook and go outside, breath in some fresh air and enjoy the real world for a change.
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I Left Facebook – Where Your Privacy is No Longer Private