Week 8 post

Level 1
The article talks about how Facebook sells its users information. It talks more on how this works economically as well as citing many different sources and people that say the same thing. It also shows the information in political views as well. The article says that Facebook sells its information to advertisement companies. These companies then take that information and send targeted advertising directly to the person. Facebook does this by recording every piece of data the user sends out. That includes posts, friends, and status updates as well as how frequent Facebook is accessed. Politically the article talks about how privacy is judged on Facebook. For socialism the rights of the workers, in this case, the users should be protected and for capitalism, the rights of the producers should be protected.

Level 2
In my opinion, the internet nowadays is a database that once you put something out there it is going to be out there forever. Facebook helps this along with its CEO saying that the goal of the site is to make the world more open. Facebook is used by most as a means to communicate with others on the internet but companies use the information that users send out to send advertisement targeted at the individual level. Truthfully Facebook does not need to send this information to anyone. A lot of people online post how to contact each other online and companies can just look at posts that people send on their own. Facebook is not the problem. It is what people define privacy on the internet that is the problem.