More on Why Facebook Is Creepy
One of my favorite tech bloggers, Jeremy Wagstaff, has this interesting take on Facebook, specifically why anyone who values his or her privacy should stay away from the popular social-networking site.
In my previous post, I laid out my reasons for abandoning Facebook, no matter that I have more friends there than in the other social-networking sites I’m using (Friendster and Multiply). Mainly, it’s about the fact that Facebook collects too much information.
Jeremy, however, explains why all those third-party apps in Facebook are not exactly harmless. He writes that those applications have access to your private data:
This is not good. Especially when you consider that this data is stored, not on Facebook’s computers where you and they might be able to keep an eye on it, but on the computers of the third party apps. And this is where it gets tricky.
Tricky indeed.
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