Sgt_Kickaxe - 8:25 pm on Feb 2, 2012 (gmt 0)

Facebook plans (according to their filing) to charge advertisers USD $120.00 PER USER for YOUR personal information. The high price is apparently part of the "like" effect in which when you click 'like' you are advertising to your group of family/friends on the advertisers behalf.

BEFORE the ipo - they were charging just $4.50, the level of exploitation will apparently increase dramatically to keep up with Wall st demand.

Facebook users are about to become billboards In the first line of a 2,000 word letter from Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook founder announces the following: "Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected."

[finance.yahoo.com...]

Facebook didn't need the money so Mr Zuckerberg's comment is essentially false, the plan seems to stay in the limelight and be talked about a la 'look at me, look at me'. I'm now happy I closed my account a year ago, the absurd has become more so and my privacy (and that of my friends/family) is worth more to me than $120.