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<blockquote data-quote="Sacrosanct" data-source="post: 8481133" data-attributes="member: 15700">I hate to break it to you, but all of that is already being done by pretty much every company website you go to, from Amazon to Yahoo.&nbsp; My day job is project management for a large banking corporation.&nbsp; More than 10 years ago we were approached by several data management companies to coordinate and share users' information and habits.&nbsp; For example, their goal was to sell it like: &quot;Customer goes out and orders pizza every Friday night using their debit card.&nbsp; We want to make it easier for them, and give them an automated prompt on their phone &quot;It's Friday, would you like to order another pizza and we will process the entire transaction automatically for you!&quot;&nbsp; (submitting the online order, charging the card, etc all behind the scenes).&nbsp; or targeted advertising, &quot;We see you get pizza every night and you love action movies, how about with your pizza this Friday, you get 10% off that pizza AND 10% off this great movie rental!&quot;Our bank declined to take part of that, but you can be sure most big companies, not just FB, is doing everything you're accusing FB of.&nbsp; So unless you never use the internet (obviously you do since you're posting here), your information is being mined, linked, and shared.&nbsp; Information = $.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Sacrosanct, post: 8481133, member: 15700"] I hate to break it to you, but all of that is already being done by pretty much every company website you go to, from Amazon to Yahoo. My day job is project management for a large banking corporation. More than 10 years ago we were approached by several data management companies to coordinate and share users' information and habits. For example, their goal was to sell it like: "Customer goes out and orders pizza every Friday night using their debit card. We want to make it easier for them, and give them an automated prompt on their phone "It's Friday, would you like to order another pizza and we will process the entire transaction automatically for you!" (submitting the online order, charging the card, etc all behind the scenes). or targeted advertising, "We see you get pizza every night and you love action movies, how about with your pizza this Friday, you get 10% off that pizza AND 10% off this great movie rental!" Our bank declined to take part of that, but you can be sure most big companies, not just FB, is doing everything you're accusing FB of. So unless you never use the internet (obviously you do since you're posting here), your information is being mined, linked, and shared. Information = $. [/QUOTE]

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