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Facebook, MySpace and others break their promise

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Steven Hodson
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We have been told .. and told .. that all these social services like Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter would never think of sharing our information with advertisers. Sure they are suppose to get the data they pay for but it is suppose to be anonymous data. Now we find out from a post at the Wall Street Journal that we have been lied to.

So in other words we been told to get ourselves a nice big jar of

Listen for the snap

Because it’s time to

Because all these services will do what they damn well please and if you want to keep on getting all this really cool stuff for free it’s time to shut-up and take what you are given.

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Categories: Technology | Tags: Facebook, lies, MySpace

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2 Responses to “Facebook, MySpace and others break their promise”

  1. That Crash You Here Is The Death Of Social Networking | Paul O'Flaherty says:
    May 21, 2010 at 11:26 am

    [...] Steven Hodson has it quite right, it’s now come out that despite assurance to the contrary and industry guideline, the social networks expect us to bend over and take it up the ass where our privacy is concerned. Share [...]

  2. Moiz Saleem Varind says:
    May 22, 2010 at 2:55 am

    It has been three days since Facebook has been blocked in Pakistan, Facebook has felt a sudden jerk in its traffic, which accounts to about 25% of 65 GB traffic. Now Youtube faces the music, blocked !! read all in detail on my post :

    http://www.worldshotcake.com/microsoft/facebook-is-disappointed-youtube-faces-blockage/

    Take Care

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