http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/
Dear Facebook,
This link says it all. Your motive has steeply steered away from actual social networking and shifted directly to data mining with the intent to sell. I was always hesitant to sign up (and held off until mid 2009) because you seemed to be a boring waste of time and ultimately you turned out to be just that... a boring waste of time. While it was sometimes neat to read about friends of the past it is not an *actual* interaction. Close friends that I used to talk to all the time have now had their lives turned into one line blurbs and snapshots, snapshots that can only contain so much feeling but stops right there. No excitement in your voices, no real pain to sympathize with... just a blurb. For that, you have become a one trick pony who's trick became not only quickly old but broken as well when you started selling out your users for the almighty dollar. For that, you, Facebook, and Mark Zuckerberg can go fuck yourselves. Peace.
...and that's about all of Facebook I could take. I remember a couple of years ago when analysts were wondering how Facebook and other social networking sites planned on making money. "Open" Graph and data mining has become their outlet and I want no part of it.
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