“Nobody knows who I am as long as I don’t log In right?” (Ignorant Internet participator).
Come on, I know that you have thought that very same thing at some moment when you first purchased a computer and got online for the first or second......or ok maybe you still think that right know. In any event, after you read this I hope that you will really know whats going on, when you are trolling the web. Did you know that websites like “Facebook” and “Gooogle” track the data you send and receive. “TimeTracker() creates a category with the name "TimeTracker," records a start and end time, computes the difference, and sends that value to the Google Analytics reports” (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/eventTrackerWrappers.html)
It seems to me that a lot of what we do is actually the payment for the services that we enjoy for free. “Facebook” is willing to give us connection, gaming, and all manner of interaction to are friends and family for a small price. That small price is the things that we are in to as far as hobby's. If I have a flickr.com account, well it’s connected to my yahoo.com account which was purchased by google I think. I also own a facebook.com account, and they all are inter-connected in one way or another.
But through the use of cookies, facebook.com can track me and will ask me if I will allow it to access information from other sites for its own purpose. I can’t but help to think that they are just going to use my information in an inappropriate way. With that said , I have been using these very same services for their true craft. And I have to say, I don’t feel that violated. They do what I was told they do, and I enjoy thier services.
