http://blog.randompsychology.com/an-open-letter-to-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg/ Scattered musings of the mind... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:53:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://blog.randompsychology.com/an-open-letter-to-facebook-founder-mark-zuckerberg/comment-page-1/#comment-159 Scott Buchanan Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:25:17 +0000 http://blog.randompsychology.com/?p=156#comment-159 I agree that it would be good for Facebook to allow you control over offensive ads, and they should definitely put clear and distinct controls on who can get your personal data (not something they've yet achieved); however, I don't really think the idea of looking at your information to find relevant ads is a problem. If the matching is always done on Facebook's side and can't be tracked by the advertiser when the ad is clicked, then I can't understand what harm is really done. I agree that it would be good for Facebook to allow you control over offensive ads, and they should definitely put clear and distinct controls on who can get your personal data (not something they’ve yet achieved); however, I don’t really think the idea of looking at your information to find relevant ads is a problem. If the matching is always done on Facebook’s side and can’t be tracked by the advertiser when the ad is clicked, then I can’t understand what harm is really done.

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