Facebook vs. Facebook Users

Seems many Facebook users don’t seem to understand that Facebook’s existence for being is to collect as much personal information about you as possible, and sell it to the highest bidder. Privacy is the enemy of that.

You’re not paying Facebook for their service, so they’ve got virtually no incentive to create the best experience for you to stay in touch with your ‘friends’. It’s just a means to an end for them, anything barely adequate will suffice. Their real incentives lie with providing advertisers with as much of your info as possible, so that they can drill down and target you with their god awful ads, in an attempt to maximise their click through rate. That goal takes priority over everything else, even that pesky privacy stuff. There’s no such thing as a free lunch. This should not be surprising.

Why the backdown? I’m sure it’s got almost nothing to do with user uproar, more like some temporary lubrication on the path to IPO.

Layton