Quoting Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com>: > On Wed, 26 Oct 2011, djs wrote: > >>> We can see the value in the free-to-us service provided by >>> Facebook, but the cost is hidden. It's hidden well enough that I, >>> an inveterate Facebooker, don't know what it is. Will I be sorry >>> someday? What is going to happen to me? I see the >>> advertisements and I guess that's part of the price I'm paying, >>> but that doesn't bother me. Should it? It's like that with >>> Google, too. >>> >>> I'm not poo-pooing the privacy issue. I really don't see what can >>> go wrong for me, so I'm asking. >> >> The Facebook service collects thousands of pages of information >> about each of her users. This blog post explains 22 privacy >> concerns from the perspective of Irish law: >> www.identityblog.com/?p=1201 >> >> The main concerns, as I see the situation, is that Facebook tracks >> every website you go to that has Facebook like/dislike buttons on >> it, even if you don't click the buttons, using web cookies iirc. >> Also, all site changes (privacy settings) opt-in users, so their >> account's privacy settings change even if they haven't logged in >> due to being out of town or similar. And that they never delete >> information even after you ask them to, they only hide it from you. >> Like said in the video, "No KGB or CIA ever had 1200 pages about >> an average citizen." (They do now.) > > > It is unappealing to be tracked and to have information stored about > me, but how will that information be used? They'll know something > about web sites I visit, and maybe they'll tell the CIA. They'll know > about my political attitudes and who my friends are. But then what? > It seems to me that they'll try to use that information to present ads > to me that I find attractive -- targetted advertising. Will that make > me worse off or better off? How does the "number of pages" of > information moderate the level of the supposed threat? Has anyone been > harmed by Facebook yet? Mike- I am not saying that you've ever made bad choices about what you post on your facebook account. But someone that may not necessarily think the world of you can potentially use it against you (of course I am just kidding). Nevertheless, here is a recent show on this american life (that you scan stream ) about a man Joe Lipari who posted a "threat" on his facebook account and got visited by the local police. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/414/right-to-remain-silent ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.