http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304772804575558484075236968.html
I just saw this in one of my friend’s Facebook profile, and I think this is interesting. It’s basically talking about how Facebook’s application (note that this is not about Facebook itself) store and use users’ data to other parties. I used to use lots of applications, like Pet Society, FarmVille, and Texas Hold’Em Poker and all, deleted them without knowing about any of the privacy issues that arise (because I need to catch up with my works) and glad I did it.
The applications that I still use are developed by Facebook, and as one comment from my first blog post said: Though they have the right to sue you when you use that picture you upload on Facebook commercially, will they ever do it? I mean, the consequences of them suing one of their users’ picture is too big. People will leave Facebook and go for other social networking sites (or other developer may create some other social networking sites which provides similar sevices like Facebook without the ‘picture-owning’ part), and there’s really nothing advantageous about doing it. For applications, however, there are lots of application developers who violates the rule because they have access to their users’ information (like what the article pointed out).
Anyway. Here’s one funny comic strip about the effect of social networking on humanbeing. And, do you really think that life was much simpler when Apple and Blackberry were just fruits?
