Latest information I got about them is the following: If you are logged into Facebook and do not log out, and start surfing the web, every page that has the famous "Like" button incorporated will deliver a report of your visit to Facebook. You do not even have to click the button, it's enough if it get loaded, and immediately Facebook has another hint of what pages you visit. And this damn button is spreading like cancer around the web, apart from all the community websites, forums and comment sections that enable you to log in with your Facebook account. Since I got fed up with Facebook long ago and deleted my account (yes, you can actually delete it if you are patient enough), I now use a fake account for comfort. I plan to get famous later in life, and I don't want Mark Zuckerberg to be able to blackmail me then.
Another frightening experience for many occured when they downloaded a Facebook application for Blackberry phones and it immediately, without notifying the owner, contacted EVERYONE in the contact lists of that phone and sent an invitation to become friends on Facebook. I was not among the victims, thank God, I have a lot of contacts in my phone that I don't wnat to talk to, that I just keep in case you absolutely NEED to contact them once again. Again, Facebook behaved like cancer.
I'm sure a lot of people had similar experiences with this social network. Be aware and take precautions. I can't help the feeling that Zuckerberg in his secret volcano lair is planning something evil ...
Sheesh. Despite this becoming public knowledge, people are still willing to throw their lives on Facebook, have it end in disaster, and then wonder how it happened to them. I'm not sure if it's funny or just sad.
ReplyDeleteAh facebook. When the world needed a new corporate villain, you stepped up to the plate.
ReplyDeletei'm glad i don't have a facebook account
ReplyDeleteI was forced into a Facebook account and I log in about once a month. I could care less about it but my family is addicted.
ReplyDeleteFB collects personal information. I don't want censorship, but misuse of information must be monitored.
ReplyDeleteI set all my privacy to the max and do not let facebook communicate with other sites.
ReplyDeletehttp://suicidemachine.org/
ReplyDeleteCommit 'online suicide'. This website, if you give it your login information, will erase you from facebook; twitter, or really wherever you like.
More and more I'm tempted to it.
I have a social browser (firefox) and a surfing browser (iron) so whenever I'm tooling around, I know my info is "safe."
ReplyDeleteIf that damn Social Network movie didn't exist, Zuckerberg wouldn't have won.
ReplyDeleteAfter many, maaaany facebook friends requests I made an account, but I dont find it fun nor interesting, so I just use it to remember birthdays and stuff like that...
ReplyDeleteI wish I could delete facebook but really it's too useful of a social tool to get rid of.
ReplyDeletefacebook is for chumps
ReplyDeleteI think that google is already able to blackmail you. You and almost every other Person on the Planet.
ReplyDeleteWhile Facebook is pretending to help connect people, they actually recently made it so that only the people you've recently interacted with on their site can see your status updates by default, even if you click "Most Recent." Like all their tricky updates, they did this without a word to anyone.
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