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 FaceBook does not “invade our privacy”! We are adults that choose to use their proprietary code to stalk our ex-girlfriends from High School. The same privileges that allow you to search her out to validate that her life is still meaningless without you years later, also allows FB to sell off your social demographic to the highest bidder.
I find that most FB users don’t really feel violated, but annoyed. The biggest annoyance is that, even though I choose to hide the year of my birth from my public FB profile, somehow the ads in the sidebar peg me as a bald, lonely, middle-aged single dad with ED that has nothing better to do but to ogle college women on dating sites. Well. at least I’m not bald…..
But it’s about trust. When I joined FB back way back in the last millennium, I made an agreement with them that I would abide by their rules. And this came from a guy that has had three Myspace pages gagged for pushing the limits of “Freedom of Speech” too far.
They changed the rules in the middle of the the game, and clearly that leaves the ballfield open for larger, more important entities of our digital lives to do the same. My digital fingerprint is about 20 years old, and spans thousands of sites. Even though I’m careful about what information is disseminated, who is to keep any of my “friends” from selling my need for college women to the highest bidder?
You get what you pay for- or not!
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PHILADELPHIA — Danzo Perry skates through the dark streets of Philadelphia like a bee in a field of flowers — fluttering in and out of alleys, rolling through crowded intersections and stopping, just for a moment, from time to time.
