Everyone knows the Internet was created by the U.S. Defense Department in the 1980s for two reasons: 1) porn and 2) stalking friends, coworkers and strangers. Today, the most common venues for the latter are Facebook and MySpace. Sorry, bub, you’re on your own for finding porn sites.
On a daily basis, people are monitoring your actions online because they want to know more about you without actually going through the trouble of a conversation with you. Why do this? We all want to feel connected to each other, but frankly, we’re just too damn lazy to put much effort into it.
But now, it seems Facebook is taking a page from our playbook with their new advertising feature, called Beacon. Apparently, Beacon is a really invasive thing that our SeriouslyGeeks are still trying to figure out exactly how invasive this thing is. Basically if you ever log on to Facebook, you are being watched for who knows how long, even after you sign off.
How dare Facebook do this to us? The whole point of a social networking site is to be stalked and stalk others, but you at least know that you are being stalked by humans and when you sign off the stalking ends. Now, it may never end, all because Facebook may want to know what you’re interested in and better know what to advertise with you.
I think they should advertise stuff the old fashioned way: spraying and praying. After all, Big Brother has no right to watch us until he has a profile.
Once again, godless scientists are actively attempting to undermine our efforts to win hearts and minds in the War on Animals.