Today's Letter Is...f

Posted: 2010-05-06

Short and sweet: If you're tired of facebook's bait-and-switch tactics of telling you you're information is private, then blasting it all over for the world to see, you are not alone.

Follow this link to catch up on lots of people have been dealing with in addition to whatever recent changes they've made since then. Don't think it's just Gawker either. The web is rife with accounts of facebook losing, selling, or just exposing private information

On a personal note, I think it's time to retire facebook. It's served its stated purpose: bringing people closer together than before without actually getting them to talk to each other. It also served its true purpose, which was to lull everyone into a false sense of security through the guise of "privacy settings", then sell off their information to advertisers and affiliates.

In my opinion, the whole world is now worse off for using facebook and subjecting itself to their deceitful practices. My apologies to those people whom I didn't believe when they told me of the evils of facebook back in 2004. They were forward-thinking individuals and saw through the "novelty" and "altruism" angles facebook was spinning at the time. In the meantime, everyone has to deal with the reality that their entire lives for the past six years have all been part of an elaborate moneymaking Matrix, of sorts. A human being's personal information: their stories, statistics, pictures, memories and more mean nothing more to the fork-tongued CEO of facebook than how many dollars he can rape from it all.

We should all be ashamed of ourselves for ignoring our own common sense and buying into it so freely.