I came across this article earlier this morning. I thought it might help illustrate my feelings about social networks like Facebook.

It isn't so much that they do things like this, want to know your personal information. It is that they assume it is okay with you to just take it. You have to tell them that it isn't okay, but often by the time you realize what has happened, the horse has left the barn.

The world we live in includes the Internet. Got it. Understand it. Use it. But these social media sites and services are not 'free'. The price to join isn't cold hard cash, it is information about you and your life that is then sold to the highest bidder. That is thing about social networks that I just haven't come to grips with. Maybe someday.

Rick