Some rants about facebook and the general outrage about their privacy of data.
First of all, lets be clear, I have a facebook account, I do not use it, I do not care to delete it.
Why is that?
While I do care about privacy of some of my data like my home address not leaking ot the general public and so on, the consequences of facebook using my data, I do not care about.
Facebook, the data brokers and whatever else, is an industry to handle and use the data collected about persons with one goal: deliver advertisement to you that interests you. Those bastards! How dare them, I want the advertisement I get not on stuff that interests me, but random stuff I do not care about. Or else I end up buying stuff I want in a win-win deal, oh horror..
Unless I am mistaken (plz lecture me in the comments) that is the whole purpose of the data collections, to sell me stuff. I do not see this as a bad thing but a good thing and one part of an efficient way to deliver the right goods to the people that need them. Yes they know what you wrote your mate and probably what you had for lunch and displaying related advertisement to you know, the alternative is that you see a picture of wheelchairs or something that they want to sell you. Yes Facebook made $250 or whatever of me, would I have wanted to pay a montly fee instead to use their service? Probably not, at least not when facebook started. I think it is a wonderful way to get a service with just the effort of giving people information about me, so they can offer me more appropiate stuff I can buy.
You now prob think, but hey, with steemit, only the users gain.. not really, steemit is not using advertisement (besides for posts) to generate revenue and deliver appropiate goods to you. In Steemit , users gain, but steem holders suffer (I hold steem, because if users grow, so does steem, so thats ok for now, but in general, thats where the money the users get comes from).
