CIA's "Facebook" Program Dramatically Cut Agency's Costs

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The Internet is a tool. Facebook is a tool*. Facebook is a more controlled tool but I'll use any tool I can but if a "tool" is using Facebook they are doing themselves, and the internet itself, a disservice by diluting it and/or buying into the rhetoric served up on the medium like Mafia Wars and Cityville or whatever the latest time wasting social engineering or filtered fanpage propaganda is.

A lot of the youth I know are already moving onto the next thing because their parents are on Facebook and they need to separate themselves from it since each generation feels a need to define themselves apart from their parents in their own niche (market). Facebook is scrambling to keep children interested ** and new sites are opening up to capture that market. It appears fractured but the way the data is bought and sold, merged and collated makes the end result of which octopus sucker node they end up on moot, from a corporate/government standpoint.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

I wish they'd bring Public Access TV back to my area but I cede those days are gone.

* You could include Google, Bing, Skype, Forum Spyders, Cell Phones, Your Web Browser or Your OS in that category as well to varying degrees but that's the price of admission. I just don't think it's really worth a load of effort to be all anonymous about my web activity and I find it an interesting study to see how my searches are filtered and my ads are served and I'm already well beyond being able to get hired for any government gig or by a multi-national corporate job if I actually wanted one.

** Social Networks Aimed at Children: Disney leads Charge into the Facebook for Under 13
http://concen.org/forum/showthread.php?tid=40487