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The comments on that article are telling. The loss of privacy due to inappropriate data mining looks like it may cause at least some people to "go Amish" slowly (now, before I get jumped, I just mean "the avoidance of technology" by "go Amish"; please don't get religious over that).

Personally, reading this article makes me glad I never opened a FaceBook account. I wish gmail was not so all-knowing either; I hate seeing very personally directed ads (anti-depressants when I am sad after reading a break-up mail, for example). Just too creepy.




Anybody that breaks up using email in stead of a face-to-face is probably not worth being sad over.

How people part ways says lots about them.




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