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I agree. I think the creepy feeling comes from the potential threat to your private life... I know Facebook and the others are trying hard to make it clear what

by jbogp 12y ago

I agree. I think the creepy feeling comes from the potential threat to your private life... I know Facebook and the others are trying hard to make it clear what permissions are involved each time you sign-up but the fact that you have to check "ooh this one can access my friends list, I don't like that" is pretty unconfortable

lazyjones 12y ago
> I know Facebook and the others are trying hard to make it clear what permissions are involved each time you sign-up What they don't make clear is that Facebook is informed every time people visit (or in some cases, login in to) those other sites and can generate better profiles from that data, even sleep schedules, even for people who rarely use FB itself.