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Find Fools, Ride Them Bareback – Being ‘Zucked’

If when you joined Facebook you didn’t think it was a multi-billion dollar business, you are forgiven. Who would think it would be so profitable, after all, outside of some Ads you never looked at, (or blocked with your ad blocker) where would they earn money?

However, the second you heard it made a billion dollars, (actually 18 Billion) you would say…’where?’ or ‘how?’ and if you had a single deductive gene you would know, (as we in Jamaica say) “Somtin a gwan” ( Something is going on) and become more than suspicious.

Maybe you wrote about taking a trip to Barbados, and ‘suddenly’ there were ads from Trip Advisor and all sorts of Bajan Hotels. Suddenly, the email address you used to join Facebook was jammed with emails about ‘cheap flights’ to Barbados, and if you were born yesterday think it was a coincidence.

Let us be clear, Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook as a data mining web site.  It pretends to connect people, it pretends to be some kind of ‘social network’  but its function is to gather as much information about you and sell it to any organisation that wants it.

That is how Zuck makes his money, that is how he became a billionaire.

He can posture and play and act and deny before any tribunal, attempting to divert. But he knows, and everyone with a fully operational brain knows exactly what Facebook was, is, and will be.

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Written by jaylar

7 Comments

    • When one has little technology it isn’t easy to track them. The more they are involved the easier it is. The more dependent they are … for example… I left my cell home when I went to the supermarket. I can walk without my cell phone. Most people can’t.

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