To Facebook or Not to Facebook

At first glance Facebook appeared to be harmless and a little intimidating because of the face that EVERYONE can see it. This was one aspect that I never was fond of, that anyone who wants to see what you've said can. You can talk to your friends for what appears to be free. But you are in a way paying with your personal information. This doesn't seem like a very bad thing though; they have to make money and selling information about what kind of ads to show to a certain consumer doesn't seem very bad to me. The ads would be there anyway and you can ignore these just as easy as any others. It was interesting to me how many young people were on the site, under the age of 12, all the other information really seemed kind of obvious, they're a business.