Facebook has grown rapidly due to network effects and its ease of use. It aims to become the world's most profitable advertising company by monetizing the extensive data it collects from users. However, this could negatively impact user privacy and individual rights as the founders of Facebook pursue their vision of dominating the digital world through Facebook and using profits to advance neoconservative agendas. Users should limit their exposure on Facebook and use other sites to prevent it from becoming all-powerful.

3. how did it grow so fast?

6. can anyone stop facebook?

7. does the facebook business benefit you?

9. the language effect

10. URL: Ubiquity first Revenue Later

11. Peter Thiel angel investor $500 000 an effort to build a state-of-the-art technological platform, plus the organizational infrastructure behind it, to enable a level of conservative activism previously achieved only by MoveOn.org and Obama for America. Jim Breyer Accel Partners $12.7 million a bridge between the CIA and new technology innovators, to discover, adapt, and deliver leading edge commercial technologies that can assist the CIA and the U.S. Intelligence Community. Mark Zuckerberg Facebook $1000 dumped; hack into Harvard's directory, download photographs of classmates, post them online next to photos of farm animals to rate who was more desirable. Warned for violating student privacy and downloading school property. Celebrated in dorm with a bottle of champagne The Facebook Oligarchy arch-conservative & anti-social

13. Dollars follow eyeballs

14. Facebook Symmetrical Relationship Friendship Request Confirm or Ignore? Twitter Asymmetrical Attention Following & Followers Followed but not following (or vice versa) The Social Graph

16. The new social norm in action

17. the hypocrite

19. Limit your exposure

20. Use other sites

21. Keep the Internet free