Facebook has opened profiles to the public.
What this means essentially, is that all of your profiles will become accessible by the various search engines like Google, Yahoo, etc. So what…just set your profile to private-- right? Privacy settings will stop many lurkers at the gate, but still allow for a voyeuristic peek into the lives of your networked friends. If you have a facebook presence, you are inviting marketing firms to target your interests.
Facebook states that the move is driven “Purely by profit motives.” One can almost respect their honesty. I can’t help but look to my minds eye and picture reptilian overlords, garbed in business suits, seated around a giant globe of earth, laughing over stock projections and drinking the blood of babies.
What are the negative implications of this maneuver for average online networking addicts like you and I? Probably not much. Just know that there is money to be made off all of us, and our privacy is of no concern. Those who control the information control the power. It’s basic stuff really, but we need to be reminded occasionally of the eerily Orwelian direction our society is leaping anxiously towards.
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