Facebook Home for Android
Posted by Tiggiler

Facebook as launched "Home" for Android devices. It is attempting to gather information on customers' usage of mobile devices in yet another attempt to monetize all aspects of its platform. Home will allow users to see live updates and perform actions on their Facebook account right from the phone's home screen. While Facebook says it will be able to document which apps users open it will only collect that data from a small subset of its home users and will only use that information to create metrics on the app's optimization. I think we all know that's a load of hooey and won't be restricted to just that for long.

This is yet another piece of software gathering information on my habits that I don't really care to be sharing. Why can't they gather information that is useful to me? Like monitor when my grass gets too long and automatically mow it for me or know when the garbage man is coming up the road and put my trash out at the curb... I'm just saying.