Reply #11: Exactly....well, okay not exactly

[TalkingDog]

While it doesn't cost money, it's not "free". They want something from you. Your info and your friends info. So they can sell it to corporations and probably, at some point, to a government entity.

You can "cheat", like I do, and make up random crap for your profile. But I haven't seen too much of that kind of sensible behavior (IMHO). It's a generational zeitgeist of: "we're all in this together", which sociologically comes along every 4th generation or so. And which one of their own has deftly exploited for personal gain.

A true capitalist wouldn't blame him.

But I'm not a true capitalist. And while I find this ironic. I also find it grim and very disheartening:





because many of them have never had to suffer the dark side of having the most innocent and innocuous information used against them. The woman who was removed from disability insurance because FB pictures showed her smiling (not water skiing or bungee jumping...merely smiling at the beach) has learned a lesson. But it could, very quickly, go so horribly wrong for many more...millions more.

And unlike other eras, where people were persecuted for a slip of the tongue or being at the wrong place at the wrong time, time can't erase or erode these digital fossils. They are permanent. Always accessible (for the right amount of money) and always actionable.

That's the problem many of us have with FB.

Imagine if the worst excesses of your youth, the things that now embarrass you that you didn't think twice about in those hormone heady days, were always hovering over your shoulder, able to become instantly present and fresh.

It's not free. As described, it's a honey trap.