Facebook Users Complain of New Ad-Based Tracking

Tech.Luver noted a story about facebook users complaining over ads where their shopping habits are shared with their friends as if they are endorsing products. The neatest part is that you can opt out- if you click a box that disappears after 20 seconds... wait to long, and they assume you are totally fine with it.

Comments

Re:What do you expect on a free service?

[rhizome]

They have to make money some how and the easiest way to do that is to sell your information on to other people or come to agreements with other companies to find ways to market to you.

The bitch was asking for it. You see that miniskirt?

Re:What do you expect on a free service?

[Frosty Piss]

At a university, you would literally be cutting out much of your social life if you never used facebook

Your post illustrates one of the things wrong with many university students today (primarily in the United States), and that is an emphasis weighted in favor of socializing over serious study. This is reflected in the overall quality of US collage graduates (there are exceptions), which is low. Yet another factor that will end up sealing America's fate as a Second Tier Nation...