Has Facebook Worn Out Its Welcome?
The Associated Press is reporting that Syria has blocked its citizens’ access to the popular Facebook social networking web site. No official reason has yet been given, but the A.P. report suggests that it may have to do with Damascus worrying that Israelis were using the site to somehow infiltrate Syrian social networks.While that’s kind of mystifying — what would be the point, exactly? — it caught The Lede’s attention for being another data point in a growing pattern: On all sides, people seem ready to conclude that Facebook is becoming A Bad Thing.

This all comes moments after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg made a public apology for the incorporation of the Beacon tracking and advertising feature, which a lot of users complained was an invasion of their privacy. In the world of business, it seems inevitable that a company's need to make a profit begins to overshadow to safety and well being of its consumers/ users, etc.
The picture illustrates something we just talked about in class as well. This is a good example of a database and its use to target specific markets by people's interests.