Factually incorrect article. >First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and beha

Factually incorrect article. >First, let’s have a primer on how Facebook makes money: The company gets you to willingly enter all kinds of demographic and behavioral information into a massive database. Advertisers, big brands and Facebook’s sales team call it “data.” You call it your profile, your likes, your checkins, your comments and everything else you do on the site. Facebook then sells that data — in an aggregated, anonymized form, of course — to brands and advertising agencies so they know how, when, where and to whom to market their wares. Data is not "sold". Data only leaves Facebook's servers when you ask for it. Facebook makes money by targeting ads on facebook.com. This is constantly misstated and it frustrates the hell out of me. EDIT: I tweeted at the author and she made the language much less ambiguous. Journalism points to Jolie O'Dell.