How can you also reconcile the fact that the founder and controlling owner of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, refuses to put monetary gain ahead of the principal of free choice?
The amount of demographic data that is contained within Facebook's servers is staggering. The fact that Facebook refuses to capitalize on it by selling it to third parties, as a matter of principle, is fascinating.
Zuckerberg is interested in seeing people in contact with one another in virtual communities all around the world. He is convinced that openness and transparency, by people acting online with their real names, and with people choosing exactly what information they release and share by managing their privacy controls, is the way to go.
It will be interesting to see if the threatened "takedown" of Facebook by hackers on November 2 of this year will in fact take place. There are those who refuse to believe that Facebook is innocent, and that it will someday be taken over by the government, or some other evil entity. The hackers supposedly are going to prove to Facebook users (and owners) that it is not as secure as they all think.
Stay tuned....
