I sometimes feel like a vast nummber of people have been "duped" into believing listing their information on the open internet is somehow beneficial to them. They believe they should do it and that it will benefit them.
A prime example is LinkedIn. Or Facebook. Or now G+.
I believe if many people knew who was really going to benefit by having personal information listed on the open internet, and how those benefitting go about doing that (analysing the info in bulk and selling it off to advertisers and the like), I wonder if many people would really think twice about listing themselves with these "services".
The way this information is handled by these websites and the people who scrape them is anything but "social". Being "social" is about respect for other people, including their privacy.
Did music exist before there was a "music industry"?