[LM_NET] Facebook and Privacy

[Laura Brooks <brooksla@NORTHVILLE.K12.MI.US>]

Hi,

I am avid fan of Facebook, and I don't understand the hullabaloo over
the recent so-called privacy breach. Facebook, although free to users,
has "hidden" costs; the illusion of privacy being the main one. Facebook
currently has a valuation of at least $2 billion; how can that be as a
"free" social networking site? Advertising.

Frankly, its new advertising or consumer branding isn't new at all. How
many of us already tell family and friends when they make a new
purchase? That  sort of word of mouth advertising has been around for a
while, Facebook has merely used technology to update it. FB is doing
this with our permission
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/07/technology/07adco.html As the
blogger at www.facereview.com points out, members balked at the invasion
of privacy when friends could first see their News Feeds; now they love
it. I suspect this too shall pass. 

* Nothing is private on the Internet.
* Facebookers can control this option.

The alternative is that we have to start paying for social networking
through a subscription. My 2 cents!

Laura





Laura Brooks
Library Media Teacher
Amerman Elementary School
Northville, MI
brooksla@northville.k12.mi.us

"Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
nothing is going to get better. It's not."
 -The Lorax, Dr. Seuss

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