Facebook might be a necessary evil for advertising, but don't use it
more than necessary.
One of my side projects has involved analyzing Web sites for several
years, and lately there are effective Facebook tracking bugs in the vast
majority of popular Web sites. Which means that Facebook not only knows
who you are, but most of each Web page you visit.
(Google also knows who you are and most of the pages you visit, plus
probably knows much of your email from one or both ends, and might even
know your physical movements around town. But we might reasonably give
Google some benefit of the doubt, whereas Facebook has been known from
the start to be corrupt.)
On an individual level, the insidiousness of Facebook almost certainly
doesn't matter, but on a societal level, it's a dangerous situation to
be putting ourselves in. So I would discourage most uses of Facebook.
And Twitter, which is trying to do a similar thing with cross-site tracking.
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