Is Facebook Just a Big Data Miner?
I have always thought of Facebook as a great social networking website that allows you and your friends to interact in so many ways, but as of today I have second thoughts about the site. Lets face it Facebook is a “business” and will always be a business, and the one thing you need to run a successful business is money. Facebook makes money in so many different ways and one of the points I’m going to talk about is the selling of personal information to 3rd parties and even the government. I should point out that Facebook isn’t the only website that sells personal information but it is a great example. Whatever you do on the internet it is being recorded by several parties so you will never be able to ever go unnoticed, why would you want to go unnoticed anyway?. I strongly believe that the internet and your usage should be monitored to prevent online crimes but storing personal data such as age, address, education and work history is an invasion of privacy. The websites that store thi
