I just hope that one day people will stop calling others paranoid whenever someone raises privacy issues. For example everytime I raise this issue, someone would call me paranoid or overly sensitive and try to show me as a crack head. Well I want to make something clear. I am not worried about someone is trying to catch me, listen my conversations or watch my every step. This is not the case at all. What I am worried is that the power and level of control they gain after all this data mining. I am not worried about individuals at all, they would be very busy to watch everyone seperately. They are rather interested in "crowd behaviour" which is a priceless data. That is why MS or Google can throw billions of dollars in less than a nano second into this business. If I had money I would probably do the same thing. Buy facebook and see how silly people can get.
I am not against social sites or similar enterprises at all. But "ends does not justify means". Why they do is more important than what I gain out of this deal. And to be honest you think that you are getting a good damn free service, in reality you are getting the short end of the deal. What you get from such relationship(you and facebook) is so little compared what they gain.
I would actually pay for a social site(as long as they have a very clear protective privacy policy), I am just not interested in any of those free online services. If you want to be part of it, go ahaed. But please do not call others tinhat people when they raise issues.
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