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You do realise that Google does all this and more. Why is Facebook suddenly any more evil?

Google knows where you live, Google knows what you did in that location, Google knows much more.

Why do people get upset when Facebook obviously is doing the same? They all are.

Google knows everything Facebook knows and more, and they are BUILT on selling that information to advertisers.

my opinion is that Facebook gets a darker rap for all this b/c they're famously more aggressive at engineering addiction. Maybe Google works just as hard at this, but it's pretty plain that FB's put a lot of effort into inducing the sort of addictions to social media that many feel are making life worse for a lot of people.

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