[lbo-talk] your Facebook is their fortune

[Eric Beck]

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Feb 2, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Shane Taylor wrote:
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>> Lie to them. On Facebook, I am 76 years old. To avoid confusing your
>> friends and family, simply make every lie private, between you and Facebook.
>
> I just don't care. Of course I'm self-employed and not vulnerable to
> employer blackmail, but what is it about this privacy fetish?

Precisely. We're cataloged, surveiled, profiled, etc., from the moment
we're born. It's hard to see why Facebook knowing I'm married or a fan
of Death Cab for Cutie* is such a cause for concern. It's capitalists
selling shit to one another and nothing to do with me, other than that
it's "my" information, which could, come to think of it, be the
concern about privacy, certainly in its libertarian varieties:
Facebook is selling my property.

*FWIW, and in case Doug and Jordan decide they want to sell some data
on me, I am the former but not the the latter.