Facebook's Anti-Privacy Policy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation gives an outline of the corrosion of users' privacy on Facebook.  The social media platform recently changed its privacy policy again and notified users that it will be sharing their personal information with several corporations involved in a new marketing pilot program.  These companies (including Microsoft Docs.com, Pandora and Yelp) will use the Facebook profile information that it gathers to tailor the experience of being on various websites and enable better targeted information to visitors.  The change has raised criticism all across the internet and in the U.S. government where four senators urged Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to reconsider the new direction his company was taking.

Facebook originally earned its core base of users by offering them simple and powerful controls over their personal information. The EFF states, "As Facebook has grown it's helped itself — and its advertising and business partners — to more and more of its users' information, while limiting the users' options to control their own information."

As an alternative to Facebook may we recommend Evolver.net--where the intent is to build a new world into being, and not sell off the old one off in the form of bits and pieces of private information.