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Besides the fact that I think Facebook is an ingenious application for connecting people, I think the applications which can be added on top of it is an utter load of crap.  Its annoying, intrusive and could probably cost you your privacy!

I am so sick and tired of people inviting me to join causes and groups, and above all to join those stupid games such as Farmville, Fishville, Mafia Wars and who knows what else. It could still be justified if my unemployed friends were wasting their time on these senseless applications, but the people who invite me are actually employed. These are people with jobs, who waste their employees’ time & money, for what? To get scammed?

Don’t be fooled in thinking that these applications are harmless! In a recent article on MyDigitalLife also exposed that these third party application sell advertising and “money” (the game currency which lets you exchange real cash for digital currency, in order to buy nifty things for their farms for example).  You grant these application access to your personal information, which may be targeted for advertising purposes at a later stage!  If you’re alarmed at any of these facts, go and read the article mentioned, and make sure that you know exactly what you do when you grant third party applications access to your profile on Facebook.

Also, please think twice before you send that invitation to your friends!  Not everyone is willing to offer up their privacy, and it gets pretty annoying to “Ignore” tons of these games requests.

Are you curious on why people hide IP addresses? Maybe you need to hide yours? The point of it for me? Your information should be confidential. And your PC shouldn’t be sending personal information right across the internet. This might not always be things that are illegal, but plain and simple things like your banking, financial statements, contracts etc. Quite clearly, not the type of things you want any hacker to know, and even worse an identity thief! Unfortunately the internet is not such a safe place as we would like to believe, so we have to find some way of protecting ourselves.

With http://www.hide-my-ip-address.com/ software, your IP and identity on the internet is as safe as you make it.

Why is it that everyone is on Facebook except me? Its apparently become the 6th most popular site on the net – but why? Why is everyone suddenly so keen to meet up with old friends? There have been other similar sites which were never so popular. Obviously they weren’t the same as Facebook, but still. I don’t get it.

I saw a video about Facebook, and the dangers thereof. I still can’t tell whether its relatively safe to sign up, or if its really as dangerous as its notorious reputation has claimed.

In the end, is it really worth risking having your whole life exposed to marketing companies and giving up your privacy to total strangers; maybe even stalkers, all in the hope of meeting up with old (or new) friends?