Whoah,
I tend to believe what this article is saying... It seems that the age of big brother is really upon us. These sites like Facebook are being used by the government to spy on the people who post there...
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/13/government-spying-social-networks/?test=latestnewsIs the Government Spying On Us Through Social Networks?
Published October 13, 2010
| FoxNews.com
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said that "the age of privacy is over." And the government wants to ensure that, it seems.
An Electronics Frontier Foundation freedom of information request uncovered a memo encouraging agents to try to befriend people on a variety of social networks in order to take advtage of their readiness to share -- and spy on them.
"Narcissistic tendencies in many people fuels a need to have a large group of 'friends' link to their pages and many of these people accept cyber-friends that they don't even know. This provides an excellent vantage point for FDNS to observe the daily life of beneficiaries and petitioners who are suspected of fraudulent activities," according to the memo obtained by Valleywag.
According to the website, the EFF wrote that "this memo suggests there's nothing to prevent an exaggerated, harmless or even out-of-date off-hand comment in a status update from quickly becoming the subject of a full citizenship investigation."
Other websites EFF say the government is spying on include Twitter, MySpace, Craigslist and Wikipedia.
Facebook and the EFF did not immediately respond to request for comment from FoxNews.com.