Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that da…
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
Facebook gobbles up their competition usually before they get big. They don't like competition - go figure. They have become a monopoly and should be limited from buying competition through antitrust laws. Competition is good .
Facebook owns the photos, videos, and personal information users upload to their website and they bundle that data to sell to aggregators who buy personal data from other collectors to build an accurate profile of users including their likes, dislikes, opinions, politics, driving habits, food choices, family members, employment, medical, etc., etc., etc. for sale. "If it is free, you are the product".
Once you upload the data it's captured, and it never goes away even if you or others can't "see" it.
Imagine a 15-year old posting personal information online (Facebook) and does so for decades only to become famous in middle-age and find that Facebook owns everything they have ever said or done online for the past 30-years, mistakes and all. And it's available for sale.
So true. And so sad. There was Parler, MeWe, Telegram, and others that Facebook didn't gobble up... they just never could compete. 😔