Facebook – what exactly do they have on me?

For the past month you have been hearing all about how social networking is stealing your data, ruining your life and manipulating your information for distribution on the shady dark web. If you haven’t heard all about this, you’re probably only just figuring out the internet. Welcome, enjoy your stay and don’t worry too much about what I just said. Mistakes were made but I’m sure you’ll be just fine.

To begin with we should be asking just how big this data breach was. Its important to realise that this was not just Facebook. The entire business model of Facebook wasn’t just to provide us a social network where we can see random photos of our high school exes, play Farmville or read in horror as your quiet auntie posted more and more frighteningly racist rants straight out of Nuremberg. In order to monetize their business, Facebook algorithms collected your…