If you have any doubts at all about the FaceBook aims and goals, here is an excerpt from eWeek:*
FB gonna EAT u!
Etsy is an internet company that partners with FaceBook. Jason Davis, lead technologist there says: “In two clicks, you connect with Facebook. We analyze information about all your friends: their profile information, their activities, their interests, their likes, their favorite bands, and…whatnot…We analyze that across your friends and make up 20 recommendations that show something they may like.”
Here is what this means. This –and any other company that collaborates with FB - can and will view analyze all your postings on your FB site and then determine what they want you to buy, see or know.
Not spooky enough for you? Then they will do the same with all your friends and their friends and so on.
Are you comfortable with an unknown entity doing this to you? Remember when you were alarmed about Google showing an image of your home online? Well, these guys are now in your home, inside your bedroom and rummaging around in your underwear drawer for stuff that interests them that they can use to manipulate you into doing their mission.
And you are inviting them in!
*eWeek/Ziff Davis Enterprise; “Identity takes on a new meaning”; P.J.Connolly; 1/17/11; P.17.
