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And yet it's completely false. Facebook does not sell personal data. Advertisers pay to display ads -- they don't get info about you.

• joe_the_user 16y ago
  And we also haven't seen evidence of a great monetizing juggernaut... yet.
• eitally 16y ago
  I should have put "personal" in quotes. Yes, we have no evidence that they're sharing private data, but they certainly are using the information users willingly share to sell ads. There's nothing wrong with that at all, but I suspect most of their users don't realize that's the primary monetization method right now.
• jpeterson 16y ago
  Come on, Paul. Do you really believe that Facebook is building this vast social graph and treasure trove of personal information, and they'll not try to exploit it in every way they can for huge profits? That's really what we're talking about here. Facebook can spin it any way they like, but in the end they will have to invade everyone's privacy in order to make money. There's just no other value on that site. There are lots of brilliant engineers at Facebook, but it seems they are kept so preoccupied with "hacking" that they don't recognize the evil empire they're helping to build.
  • alain94040 16y ago
    This is pure speculation on your part. You could replace Facebook with Google and make the exact same argument. Let's keep outrage for when outrageous things happen.