Monday, 6 January 2014

Weekly story #2

You think Facebook is free? Well, it'll only cost you private life


A European company researched  last week and found that Facebook was "dead and buried to teenagers" as the young audience are using more interactive social networking sites such as Snapchat Instagram and Whatsapp. The reason why most young audience complain why don't use Facebook now is because they say there parents have started using it and no children would want to get stalked by their parents on a social networking site. Facebook and other companies like Facebook make money from our data and content, they use all of that to get the perfect ads popping up for us. These companies have perfected surveillance as a business model. They spy on us for commercial gain.  Services on the internet, we click through to a digital emporium where we sacrifice our privacy. Every click, message and electronic trail is mined for profit. Every digital stroke makes money for them. The more time that you spend, the more money they make. There is little they don't know, almost nowhere they can't follow and nothing they can't tell about your digital life. The net has effectively been captured. Government spying agencies on the one hand and Facebook and Google on the other are warehousing our data, mining our lives and minting theirs.

My view:
I think that this could freak out loads of users and whatever you do at whatever time, you are getting spyed on. That's the only which they could make profits from, so there is no way I think the audience would be able to get these ads off their page. Privacy is one main factor, privacy has had an big impact on the users and on Facebook as they have lost their young users. The reason why they have lost their young users is because they say that they don't their parents to be stalking them on Facebook because many young children are claiming that their parents have started to get the hang of Facebook and that they use it more than their children. This means that Facebook might have to create more stronger privacy, so that the children could hide their profiles from their parents.

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