Okay, so if people who use facebook don’t already care about the lack of privacy they willingly submit to, why would they suddenly care about this newest Big Brother-esque gadget. Facebook seems to be slowly, but surely baiting people into unwittingly giving up information about themselves so that they can sell this valuable information to some marketing douche. I have an eerie feeling that facebook purposely keeps changing their privacy policy and settings so that your average user will simply give up trying to decipher what personal info is getting spread all over the internet. The innate need to tell others about whatever random thought just popped into people’s heads vastly outweighs any concern that a well organized network of corporate spies is making money off their every keystroke(facebook’s free…right?). Ironically, the people protesting on Wall St. are complaining that corporations have too much power. I think that as a society, we’ve essentially handed them this power because we never question the big picture stuff like: Gee, I wonder what facebook does with all the information about people it collects? All we’re doing is making their job way easier than it’s supposed to be, just so we can entertain ourselves. In a sense, I feel like we’re now getting what we’ve had coming. There is a price to be paid for our insatiable appetite for constant entertainment, speed, and convenience: it’s called capitulation. Corporations can’t be blamed for our own ignorance, they’re simply filling the vacuum we left behind when we forfeited our rights in the name of convenience and entertainment.
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