Originally Posted by
RKenshin
/shrug
I'm not surprised by any of this stuff, nor have I been for the past couple of years now. It should be pretty well-known by now that nothing you post online is private, and all of these companies are harvesting all the data they (both legally & illegally) can from you. It's how they make most of their money (targetted advertising and marketing). Anyone who expects or thinks otherwise is niave, in denial, living in a box and/or dumb.
That doesn't make it right, but it's tough to feel bad for people that get played by this over and over. It's like the guy that has "password" as his password for everything, and one day is up in arms about getting their banking info stolen.
I still have a facebook, but I might post like 4-5 things a year and I rarely like, comment, or upload anything. I don't list interests or go around liking tons of pages, clicking advertisements, etc. I couldn't care less what they do with the very limited info I give them.