Nadia Gunderson raised a couple questions, in her recent blog post, about privacy policy and advertisements social media. I could write an epic about my thoughts, mostly in agreement, I’ll condense them to two main points.

The first is that its recently come to my attention that “false likes” have been popping up on facebook. Though I can’t prove it myself, I’ve recently noticed a continuous stream of “Advertised Likes” that my friends apparently promote, many of which are entirely unlikely (from Shell, to Mitt Romney). Its fascinating that not only are likes being monitored, but they may be tampered with.

The second thing is really just an idea I’ve had, just a little bit of a kick in the pants for any of the many who steal glances regularly at facebook friends. What if, I’m just saying, they switch the search bar with the status bar. Every single time I was write the individual I’ve been creeping on into the status bar, it instead becomes my status update. Pé Tolfo “Nadia Gunderson”. Pé Tolfo “Ali Vanderkruyk”. Pé Tolfo “Emma Warren”.

I feel like that would keep people on their toes…. Possibility of everybody knowing your latest crush. Possibility of those company reps scanning liked pages to be exposed. I don’t know if it would work, but it would certainly make things more interesting.