2011-12-11: Facebook

Despite its amazing connectivity ability I’m leery of giving an organization mounds of data to make money on.  Here’s an excerpt from a recent USA Today Article on the topic:

To meet rising expectations, Facebook must increase its annual revenue, now estimated at about $4 billion, by double-digit percentage points for years to come, Gluck says. The company is striving to keep its options open to do this. In doing so, it is bumping into pressure from critics who are concerned that leaving online privacy standards entirely in the hands of corporations might not be the best idea.

I still believe FB is useful and a wonderful example of American innovation, but I prefer not to give all my personal web viewing history to an overtly liberal organization hoping they will only use it for benign purposes.

Before the Federal Government decides to waste money on protecting me from myself I decided to take matters into my own hands with the following recommendations to preventing my data from being sold to the highest bidder. 

Now if they would just let me do this with Social Security!