Somehow in the last few years we as a society have grown to the point where we no longer have watches to tell time, actual camera's outside of our phone, and now everyone seems to have multiple profiles on facebook and twitter. On social networking sites such as twitter and facebook we seem to put out all of our personal information for all to see.
Facebook is definitely a great example of this as they recently have admitted that some of the games played on their website had been sending out people's user id's to advertising networks.
Now as we all know by pop ups, it is not uncommon for these kinds of websites to somehow sell information. How do we know this? by the sidebar advertisements that somehow know exactly who theyr appear to. Or is it such a coincidence that they all just happen to be targeted at you!?!
Some social networking sites bend their own policies as was the case with facebook. Their privacy policy seems to be secure enough but in the fine print you see that they technically only keep some things private but can also choose not to. How can we just keep agreeing to these policies? Simply put we just do not seems to care in anyway because we enjoy connecting with friends and constantly talk about ourselves. Yes, anything to nurture our ego's.
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