You say that now, but I've just seen an item in my facebook feed where you say the exact opposite.

I'm personally not bothered about the images, but any text which implies that (for example) I want you to follow the link for hot dates in Halifax is creepy and potentially annoying.

Yeah, it was weird to see an ex on my sidebar promoting the school of economics.

I'm pretty confident that they won't want to use my image to sell anything.

Hahaha. I would like to see them sell something with this.

Reason #4256 that I do no have a Facebook account.

KoP, you beat me to it. I actually do have a Facebook account, but I haven't touched it since they kicked out Scrabulous.

And it's Reason #17 for me. I have 4256 reasons to avoid Facebook, but that is one of the higher ranking ones.

Even though I'm not on Facebook, it was worth clicking this link just so I could see this:

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I love it.

This was sort of like one of my business ideas, except, you know, mine was opt-in.

I'm pretty creeped out by it, since I figure that they must have found a way to legally do it, though it beats me how. The termsofservice and whatnot that you click ok on seem to allow anything these days. And like seanyboy says, one day it's not some innocent DVD/album recommendation but - ugh - dates in Halifax or whatever.

i don't do the facespace things but, Facebook doesn't give the impression that it's concerned with its users as individuals with rights so much as statistics and random data to be used for their own ends for profit.

The closest to "social networking" i'm part of is Flickr, and it has an active forum for its users to voice themselves (as far as i know. i only notice it when an issue arises largely.) which i'm not aware of with spacebook stuff.