Facebook Opens Up To Public Search

Must admit, I have very mixed emotions about this.

As Om writes, "We are slowly leaving digital litter all over the web, and some day it is going to cause problems."

That said, we all make choices, and one of the big choices we've made over the past 10 years is to not pay for stuff online. But we all pay, one way or another. Increasingly, we pay with information and data instead of cash. You want Facebook? Don't want to pay $9.99/month to get it? Well, ask yourself this: How do you expect Facebook to stay in business? Makes the idea of data gathering and the use of personal information a bit easier to understand, doesn't it?

Here's Scott Karp's take on it. Much more discussion here.

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