Thursday, March 1, 2012

The Price of Fa$ebook

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If you were to ask pretty much anyone if Facebook costs anything, they would say no.  The conventional person knows that it is technically free to use for everyone.  However, this is not necessarily true.  While, it is free in terms of money, that is not the case in another sense.  Each and every person that signs up for Facebook is selling their personal information.  Therefore, the true price of Facebook is your value of personal information.  The exigence present regarding this idea is a very interesting topic.

Most people consider Facebook to be amazing tool and I would have to agree.  However, many people do not fully understand or know how to use the privacy settings in Facebook.  This causes there personal information to be available to anyone.  Anybody that knows their name can access their page and view their information.

Also, the advertisements on Facebook take advantage of your personal information.  I do not know about you, but I have seen advertisements regarding information I have on Facebook on numerous occasions.  I have seen ads that pertain to the school I attend as well as other things.  

All in all, while the information you put on Facebook can be secure if you choose to make it that way, you are still giving all of that information to a company.  This company has immense amounts of information about people from all over the world which is pretty amazing.  Considering the fact that knowledge is power, Facebook is a pretty damn powerful organization and they show no signs in slowing down.  It is just interesting to think about the idea that Facebook may not be completely free.  Now that Facebook is starting to transition to using Timeline, you basically sell your entire life story to them in return for the use of their service.
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  1. --March 4, 2012 at 2:59 PM

    I definitely agree with you as to the hidden price of Facebook. For a long time in high school I didn't have one partially for that reason. The thing is though, people should at lease be able to understand that Facebook has their information, because they are the ones that put it out there. The big company that seems to offer free service while actually recording your information is Google. As of a few days ago they modified their privacy policy so that they are starting to save your search history and will use that to suggest things to you that you might. They also reserve the right to sell any of the information that they have stored about your search history to other companies. Out of everything, that is the scariest part to me. I totally agree with everything you wrote.

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