AOL, Yahoo, CNN and Facebook are all in cahoots to make our interent experience more enjoyable. Since Facebook has the most personal information about it's user's real lives than any other company on earth. Even Google wants to gain access to Facebook's grasp of what really goes on in peoples lives. Thankfully, for now Facebook is holding true to it's original stance on protecting it's users by guarding the things they don't want people to see. All in all, their security features have always made me feel safe and comfortable on Facebook. In a recent news release to their users, they informed us that Facebook would be joining forces with the above named companies and will continue to keep our secrets.
Whenever I hear that Facebook is teaming up with a company, I get concerned that they will harm my security in some way. Possibly join forces with a "good" advertising company and sharing all our demographics, comments, thoughts, emails, who knows.
Mostly these new partnerships will be to improve your experience on these other companies websites. They mentioned that they would be integrating AOL and Facebook chat services. This last feature they mentioned is the one I think will be the most exciting. CNN and Facebook are going to bring us a more social Presidential inauguration using Live Stream.
Facebook was started by Harvard Students and grew out to other higher education institues. It has an incredibly intelligent and wealthy user base. At it's core, Facebook is a tool waiting to be tapped in the Right way for political uses. I am not a programmer or a politician, but I am a creative thinker. In the future, I guarantee you will see social networks being integrated ever more into politics.
In closing, I would like to thank Facebook for saying "We don't share your information with advertisers unless you tell us to (e.g. to get a sample, hear more, or enter a contest). Any assertion to the contrary is false. Period."
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