If your privacy matters to you, Facebook shouldn’t be your pal

The fact of the matter is that Social Networking Sites are slowly becoming as addictive as any lethal drug; well in our defense we might say that every age in time has had its own poison and Facebook might be ours and we can’t help it much. However, we might make an effort to and especially after figuring out the loopholes and reading the light print between the lines it might become clearer to us how the company is actually taking its users for a ride with or without the users even knowing.
There is a very basic system that all users on Facebook must first know and realize and maybe after that take an informed decision- even though most users on Facebook might like to believe that they are the equivalent to customers on Facebook as the truth is on Google and other such places on the internet, they can hardly be more mistaken. The fact is that users are very far from being customers and especially because they are not paying the company, in fact they are almost like the products that Facebook is trying to sell to its real customers. Now, who might these real customers be? Well, none other than the advertisers who are paying Facebook massive sums of money not just for being able to advertise on the site but the company is also feeding them with information about their users which users might realize or not.
The trick is in the Privacy Policy which is revised by the company as many number of times that many people update their statuses on the company’s site. Every time a determined user might change their privacy settings, there they are, changed again and left for you to figure out so that all your personal information is not blatantly given out to the public.

However, they might ask you- running a show like Facebook is certainly not a cheap affair and who is going to bear the burden of this kind of cost? Well the fact is that there are of course ethical ways of doing the same thing and there might be many trying to do so who most of us are just ignoring because Facebook has all our friends on it. Whatever the reason is, one might say revolution is on its way.

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