Facebook is Evil
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Exactly true, try logging into the account you think you deleted. You'll find it's still there and fully intact, the only thing it really does is removes your profile for all your friends to see. I'm sure in the terms of service it says somewhere that anything you post becomes property of facebook, this includes pictures and videos. Do a google image search for your name, you might be surprised to find pics of yourself from facebook.
I actually saw on a DEA documentary them using Facebook to check out the drug dealer they had under surveillance. The moron was posting everything he was doing on FB, and photos of the people he was selling drugs too. the DEA agents were laughing and saying it's making their job easy... they used his up to date photos from FB to tail the guy through the airport and arrest him with the coke.... thanks to Face Book!
When Bill Gates joined facebook he said it was great. Then some time later on he left. This was news. He said it took up too much of his time and he was always be deluged with friend requests from - basically everyone. I think people saw him as a trophy - I'm friends with Bill Gates. I know that for many high school kids it's a competitive sport. ie: I have more friends than you. However, after reading some of the drivel that some people post I can only conclude that they and their audience were meant for each other. I still can't fathom why anyone would think I take an interest in knowing that this morning they had to skip toast because their bread had mould, or they found a missing sock under the fridge. I understand that it's a good way to spread news about your life, or bigger events, but all too often, what passes for news these days just makes me shake my head.
By the way, I never joined facebook, and that suits me just fine. And I've never missed out on anything important, in family matters or anything else.
By the way, I never joined facebook, and that suits me just fine. And I've never missed out on anything important, in family matters or anything else.
This is the point, as you said, with FB people are volunteering their information, Google on the other hand grabs it when you use one of it's services - having a monopoly on search guarantees their data mining position.
Huge Difference. Google is looking at search habits - Facebook is publishing personal information. People have committed suicide from personal information on the internet. Try the same stunt with a Google search. People have lost their jobs because employees have been able to look at personal conversations directed at friends - try that on a Google.
Of course Facebook didn't develop a fantastic O/S for mobile systems that now is in 80% of new mobile devices. I guess that could help some people to leap the logic required to compare Facebook & a Google search engine.
It is a huge difference, on FB people explicitly share their information - sometimes unwisely - but they do it, with Google customer data is stolen through the use of web services and Android (the reason Google doesn't mind making zero money on Android) - they simply wanted to dupe the public into carrying a mobile data capture device. Didn't you see the thread where danmand opened up Google and the letters were spelled out in birthday cake because it was his birthday..... Private sector NAS operation for ad selling instead of terrorist hunting.
