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Losing Trust in Facebook

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Ever since the inception of the internet, people of all ages have begun to adopt to the digital era and began to use and explore the interweb. According to Internetlivestat.com, over 40.4% of the population has begun to use the internet and many of the users are using the domain name Facebook.com. Facebook was a website which was started by Mark Zuckerberg in Harvard University on October 28, 2003. The website during the time functioned like the site Hot or Not where people determined whether or not people were hot or not. But today the website has changed and functions differently than it did in the past. Over 1.3 billion active users are using Facebook today according to Statista.com and many of them do not know the truth about what the site is doing with their data and how it is affecting their usage of the site daily. An article was posted on April 2nd 2015 on CBC.ca by Jonathan Ore about a research which, was conducted in two Belgian Universities about Facebook being able to track people’s activity, even if you are not a user of the site. Facebook is using something known as cookies to track user’s activity on the internet. Cookies are not something you dip into cold milk and eat on the internet but instead they are small user files which are stored on a user’s computer. They hold small amount of data specific to a particular user and website, some websites use this data to show user information or webpages they would be most attracted to. Facebook which used to be a website on which we went to see and talk to friends and family members has begun to plant a cookie called “datr” on your computer which tracks your movement on the internet and notes down all the websites and information you search on the web. On Google.com alone there are 1.2 trillion searches daily according to Internetlivestats.com and those searches are saved by Facebook, and are used to display user oriented ads on their Facebook page. Over 94% of the teen in the world were on Facebook during 2012 conferring to Marketingland.com and all those teen were affected by their cookies being tracked. With Facebook using their data from tracking their cookies, they are able to attract the innocent youth into clicking their ads and making billions from the advertisements. Nowadays our youth is no longer safe to use the internet anymore because there are corporations out their trying to target their ads at the young and getting them into buying their products. There have been increases in cases in which children have taken their parents bank cards to purchase games online which are advertised by Facebook and have spent an astonishing amount of money up to $2500 on in game money. This was noted in an article by Ra

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