The boys convince a reluctant Kyle to sign onto Facebook. Once there, he realizes that even Cartman has more friends than he. Kyle soon learns how much time and trouble is involved to appease high maintenance Facebook friends and relatives, play Yahtzee, participate in Farm-ville, and run a cafe!
Kyle isn’t the only one who is disgusted with Facebook. The social networking giant has been caught red handed, invading your privacy and that of 750 million users! The snooping doesn’t end when you log out, but follows you all over the internet – depending upon your searching habits, I’ll let the impact of that news slowing sink in.
A nosy Australian tech blogger Nick Cubrilovic, blew the story wide open when he found that Facebook (motto: Trust us, we’re friendly!) ‘inadvertently’ downloaded software on user’s computers. This software sent the information of your whereabouts back to the mother ship, whether you were logged in or not. In turn, the data returned to Facebook’s servers – info that could be worth billions when creating ‘targeted advertising, based upon the sites users visited.
Facebook graciously thanked Cubrilovic, and stated that they had fixed the problem Not so! Cubrilovic found that FB still still automatically puts files, aka cookies on your computer, which monitor your browsing history, although Facebook claims the cookies no longer send information while clients are logged out. The cookies remain on your computer unless you manually delete them.
As news of this betrayal spreads, out national love/hate affair with Facebook is coming to an end, with many people pulling their accounts – and admittedly giving up farming as a tough way to make a living.