In the Wall Street Journal an article appeared that said that our privacy on facebook is at risk through the apps. according to the journal when you use a Facebook app like Farmville and Texas Hold 'em it sends your Facebook ID to companies or whoever is smart enough to be able to access it. This violates Facebook's privacy rules. Facebook has taken drastic steps to stop this by freezing some of the apps making users unable to use or download them. Some groups like RapLeaf have gotten this info. They have not only hooked this up to their database, but sold this data to other companies.
As a fairly new facebook user this doesn’t really affect me. I don’t really use the apps and don’t spend the hours glued to a screen instead of talking to people face to face.I think about the massive number of facebook users that use apps and realize that those companies could be compiling up to a small countries population of raw data. That's thousands if not millions of little bits of data which gives access to an email which could mean even more spam in our inboxes. All this has convinced me to be even more careful of my facebook and keep to people I know.
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