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Facebook’s Tiers of Selling Your Information

January 28, 2014 by Museum Fatigue

“If you aren’t paying for the product, you’re the product” never really made much concrete sense until this morning. The folks over at Boing Boing posted an image from @TheBakeryLDN illustrating what companies know when customers login to their services via Facebook. I suppose much of this could be expected, I posted about the increasingly insistent and irritating way that Facebook tells me it wants my data a few months ago (“The Facebook Database Must Be Fed”) complete with Little […]

Categories: Bodies, Privacy, Surveillance • Tags: digital double, Facebook, Privacy, Social Media

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The Facebook Database Must Be Fed

May 23, 2013 by Museum Fatigue

Most people around at the dawn of the public Internet might remember the brief period when important webpage addresses circulated by word of mouth, in emails among friends, and were even published in books. Back in 1994, for example, I remember buying a telephone book-sized tome hundreds of pages thick, packed with URLs broken down by type. I’d look in the book’s index, find what I wanted, and then type the unwieldy URL into the browser. Viola! Then came search engines— Yahoo!, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves!, Google and […]

Categories: Discipline, Internet, Random Reflections, Surveillance • Tags: Database, digital double, Facebook, internet, social web, technology

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