Social Networking - Is it getting addictive?

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Flash

Flash

Lost in speed
Why I'm quitting Facebook - CNN.com

Facebook does not exist to help us make friends, but to turn our network of connections, brand preferences and activities over time -- our "social graphs" -- into money for others.

We Facebook users have been building a treasure lode of big data that government and corporate researchers have been mining to predict and influence what we buy and for whom we vote. We have been handing over to them vast quantities of information about ourselves and our friends, loved ones and acquaintances. With this information, Facebook and the "big data" research firms purchasing their data predict still more things about us -- from our future product purchases or sexual orientation to our likelihood for civil disobedience or even terrorism.

The true end users of Facebook are the marketers who want to reach and influence us. They are Facebook's paying customers; we are the product. And we are its workers. The countless hours that we -- and the young, particularly -- spend on our profiles are the unpaid labor on which Facebook justifies its stock valuation.
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Pretty true!
 
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surajramnani2k8

Journeyman
As everyone else i was addicted to facebook..but no longer am..the trend seems to be fading away..People are preferring whatsapp more these days..
 
harshilsharma63

harshilsharma63

DIY FTW!
Forget Facebook, I'm now addicted to TDF :D But that's nice, because I'm actually helping people here rather than post the sorrow of a broken heart and expecting likes on it :facepalm:
 
Sainatarajan

Sainatarajan

Wise Old Owl
Even I am addicted to TDF... But the thing that makes me not to come to TDF is the Internet speed. It is dead slow on Airtel , dont know why...
 
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