Facebook is of course a fantastic communication tool: knowing the participants at event, sharing its musical tastes or its political beliefs. It is exactly this abundance of information about the everyday life of the Internet users that makes Facebook a gold mine for the announcers. Indeed, in spite of all the qualities of the site, Facebook is not ashamed to sell your private life!
Indeed, when you connect on Facebook, an automatic recording of your browser and your address IP is made. Furthermore, they store certain information of your browser by using cookies (informations kept by the browser) which allow for instance to register your password. Facebook thus uses cookies to know exactly your use of the site and better target advertisements.
Finally, by publishing a contents on the site, you grant expressly to the society to use, copy, represent, spread, reformat, translate, extract and distribute these contents for commercial purposes, advertising agents, etc. on the site.
Be careful with Facebook, it is not just a means to know the life of others, it is also a means for the others to see all what you live.
“Others” can sometimes be unknown and unwanted persons …



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