Facebook changes creeping out some customers

Found on CNet News on Friday, 23 September 2011
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At the F8 conference yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg showed off some of the most drastic changes ever made to the company's service. And though Zuckerberg is excited by those changes, many folks across the Web aren't so quick to celebrate.

The Facebook CEO said he believes the improvements will help create "a completely new class of social apps" that will let users share every single facet of their lives on the social network.

"All those activities people perform with these apps--listening to a Bjork tune, reading about same-sex marriage laws, cooking Arroz con Pollo, running four miles, donating to Amnesty International--will be stored permanently and made accessible (if the user allows it) on a greatly enhanced profile page that will essentially become a remote-control autobiography," Wired's Steven Levy wrote about the update.

Perhaps this will make people start to wonder if it's really a good idea to hand over every single detail of your life to a website you can't control. Zucky of course is doing what's expected from a CEO: he tries to get as much data out of the userbase as possible, just like a farmer tries to get more milk from his cows; and Facebook users are nothing more than cows: they are producing what's being sold to advertisers. Zucky does not get a single cent from those 800 million who signed up, but he earns billions by selling their personal information.