> I would not like the idea of FB to fail (connect the world) but would like its current business model to fail (selling private information to highest bidder).

> I would not like the idea of FB to fail (connect the world) but would like its current business model to fail (selling private information to highest bidder). They don't. This is completely against their business model (which is - from the perspective of the target, aka you and me - the same business model google has). They don't sell your information, they want all your information to sell advertisers the ability to target and tailor their ads to you (and convince advertisers to give them more data so they can target more efficiently). I don't understand why and how this trope keeps getting repeated, particularly among tech people. Just the fact they are collecting the data is bad (and incentivizing other business to throw their data in their databases), there is no reason for spewing FUD about what their business model is, or even touching how good/bad they are (or were years ago) at preventing that data from leaving their servers.