Ever since Google started paying web-masters a share of their revenue for money generated by the adds placed on their sites. Web designers have tried many, many ways to bring people to their websites in hopes they will click on the ADS, or search on the Google search box they posted. One way was to start a blog, and go to other blogs to entice people to visit their blog so they can be exposed to ads on their site. The other way is to pay other web-masters to place an ad on their website, by utilizing Google Ad words. Thats right Google makes money every time someone advertises with them. If your hosting these ads on your site Google will share a piece of that revenue with you. That's right, its an endless cycle of what you could call "a cross referenced advertising feeding frenzy!"


Mark E. Zuckerberg who is considered to be the founder of Facebook. He originally created it to communicate with his college community at Harvard.
It was eventually named "The Harvard thing." It grew so fast he enlisted the help of his roommate Dustin Moskovitz. They first spread it to, Stanford, Dartmouth, Columbia, Cornell and Yale. Then to other schools with social contacts at Harvard. Now Zuckerberg is no dummy, so to capitalize on his creation he placed Google Ads or Ad-sense as its referred to, to generate revenue when people using his site clicked on them.
When I first started using the internet I couldn't figure out why someone would spend the time to publish free information for their readers......
Web-masters are always trying to find ways to get more traffic to their sites so they can get more clicks on the posted ads. What better idea than Facebook's concept of people connecting with old friends? Thats right, "Sign up with Facebook to find your old buddy from grade 6 or the girl you use to have a crush on back in the 9th grade!" Facebook goes from hundreds of users all the way up to 100 million users. Nows the time for that old cliché "Why the didn't I think of that?"

133,623,529 North American visitors per month, and thats only 29.5% of the total active users!

Now don't get me wrong, Facebook is a valuable tool if your a social networking fanatic or simply wish to find old friends, and they have the right to make money from what they offer us. However did you ever wonder what they do with all the data they collect from us? Picture this:

Mr. Facebook is sitting in his shiatsu back rubbing computer chair sipping his $1000 bottle of 30 year old single malt Scotch when he gets a call from the F.B.I. or the R.C.M.P. They tell him they need some insight on the Lost Doctor" Its a matter of National Security!" Heres what he sends them:

Think of all the negative possibilities people can do by just looking up someones name on face book. Granted, you can limit the amount of information they see, however how many times have you accepted a friend just because your single and spotted a pretty girl whos status is "Single, looking for man." Lets face it this is a "Social" Networking site. Or maybe you just want as many friends as you can get! Some one in my family once asked me to join the "Are you related" application I chose not too. Not because I'm not proud of my family, simply because its none of Face book's or any one else's business!

Heres a worse case scenario (if you watch the Sopranos you will like this) Lets say some distant (so distant you never knew existed) relative you just connected with on Facebook is a notorious drug dealer who "screws" his biggest supplier down in Panama!
Well he pissed that very dangerous "slime ball" off so much, he decides to kill his entire (I mean entire) family before he gets him!
Gee aren't you glad you confirmed your related now?????
Like I said: Worst case scenario!

When I first signed up with Facebook, one of the steps was to give them my email account password. I didn't fill that spot, instead I clicked on the very tiny "skipthisstep" link. Even after I confirmed my identity by responding to the email they sent me, I still had to fill out one of those very annoying, "type what you see" messages every time I sent a message! OK your probably asking, "Whats wrong with giving Facebook my email password?" Heres the first reason: Most people don't change their passwords to their accounts because it makes it easy to forget them. Not to mention, its not that important to encrypt ones email account, or is it?

OK, OK! heres another one: In their read-me section after you sign up they say: "Never give your passwords to any one, ever!" Isn't that a hypocritical statement?

Lets say 30 years from now Hate Crime Laws make it an indictable offence to make any derogatory remarks about any race, punishable with Life imprisonment!

Now I cant stand those "How many ________, etc, etc..." jokes, especially when one with such a limited imagination they feel compelled to tell you every one they ever heard and don't stop even when you ask them to!

Sorry for going off an a tangent.

Seriously though, how many times has someone said "There was a Jew, a Hindu, a Buddhist and a Catholic, etc, etc..."

Now imagine this if you will: Someone reports you to the "Internet Police" because they saw you and your buddy commenting one of those classic jokes. Because of this new law they ask Facebook guy for your email and password because your under suspicion of Hate crimes (just a simple allegation) and they find not only a couple jokes you were sent or maybe you forwarded to someone else and used this as evidence against you as a "racist" or "hate monger!" I'm sure you catch my drift...

I use to use the Facebook AP on my Black Berry, but when I last updated the software they asked me to check off the options I wanted. Well the options I didn't want (which were all of them) still showed up in a surprising manner....One day I got a reminder of a webinar I supposedly scheduled to watch from someone I've never heard of before. This appeared as though I scheduled it on my calendar! I did no such thing...I promptly deleted the Facebook AP from my Blackberry and will never use it again. The only reason I haven't cancelled my Facebook account is because I wanted you to read this!I hope this all makes sense to you and I would love to hear your opinions on this matter. I have plenty more I would still like to share with you!Have a Great Day and Don't forget

"If your not having fun, whats the point?"