Business Issues

Business Issues
No. Using information collected from personal posts on Facebook and Linkedln is not an invasion of privacy. Of course marketers are always looking for better ways to gather information about target markets and increase product sale. Posting on a public site such as forums or social networking should not be expected to stay private. It is not eavesdropping when you openly post information and updates about yourself. You have the option to privatize your profile and send sensitive information via email or message from user to user, it is on the user what they want to publicly post and seen by marketers. If you don't want your information gathered either don't put it up on public sites or privatize it to prevent marketers from gathering your information. You have the option to.... Disabling or deleting cookies to prevent from being tracked. Taking advantage of the option to ensure all privacy boxes are selected. Turn on in private filtering to prevent your information from leaking. Refrain from putting personal information on public access. Every website tracks consumer movement for marketing purposes. None of your vital private information is spilling into their hands that will affect you in anyway. Even phone company's exchange this same information for marketing tactics. Facebook customers are not you, me or other individuals, but companies. Individuals and their data product are not the customers. Technically Facebook is not allowed to provide information about you however is allowed to provide trends that can relate to you. In that way, Facebook cannot sell information such as your name, sex, age, IP, etc. However, they can sell generalized information such as: "X% of female users, aged 18-20, from Tacoma, follow this trend, respond to certain posts, and frequently use the word 'Beiber". When I refer to customers I am referring to the marketing companies who wish to keep track of what people are interested in. It's an effective means of figuring out what people are interested by specific race, age, gender, location, favorite music, ads and games...you get the picture. They don't sell "personally identifiable information" which is data associated with your name and address and phone number. They gather information like what you like, what city you are in, and bundle that with similar information from other Facebook members and sell that bundle. No names, no addressed, no phone numbers. The information marketing companies receive is the same information your "friends" see. You have the option of customizing your profile to prevent others from viewing information you may find private to yourself. It is also listed in Facebook’s legal terms. People are responsible for all of their own content and information they post on Facebook, and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings. There is a page on Facebook that shows you their terms about their privacy settings. Seeing how we do not pay for Facebook, we are not customers. I guess you could call us the product. Marketers want to know what we are interested that way they can use this and collect general information to produce a product we are looking for. What it narrows down to is if you are concerned with the information you are placing on a "publicly" accessible site then don't put it up. Aside from that you are safe when you customize your security settings not only on Facebook but in private filtering is an option on your internet provider. For people that do say it is an invasion of property, it isn’t at all. You have the choice to make it a public post that everyone can see or a private one. You always have the option to do so but people forget. If it bothers you that Facebook uses your information to post ads about things you like then get off a social media websites and just don’t put anything on the internet that you don’t want to be seen. Goes for the website Linkedln, it’s practically a social media site with other people who share things about themselves. Almost exactly the same as Facebook but named Linkedln. There are many ways Facebook has organized so that the things you post can only be seen by yourself and your friends. There are the options write as you typing the post to make it private or share with friends or share with friends and their friends or just privately to yourself or someone else.