MySpace Sells User Data?!
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“What are you doing right now? “Typing a new blog post about how Myspace cheated on me with InfoChimps.”
Mood: Betrayed
So today I noticed in my feeds a blog post about how MySpace is working with another company, InfoChimps to betray the intimate relationship MySpace and I shared.
I’m like OMG, WTF is going on here? I thought like every time a picture of me letting some totally hot guy, but total tool, do a body shot off of me was going to be just for me and my friends to get a laugh about. Well now some geek behind a monitor somewhere will be all up in my space.
And what about my blog posts, all of my personal thoughts and stuff, like that should be private. Like there should be a law or rule or something about that.
Someone told me that anything I put on here is owned by MySpace, but if that’s true why can I make it private? Huh?
Well, nvm, how am I supposed to stop publishing things on here, I mean like everyone I know is on here and I would never know what is going on, so I say let the good times roll.
Who cares if some geek gets off looking at my pictures, who knows these InfoChimp guys could be kinda hot right?
Ok MySpace peeps, that’s it for now, catch you on the flip side of this boring ass class I have.
TTYL”
That’s right, MySpace has just betrayed your intimate relationship with the popular social networking site.
According to a recent report, information from MySpace, including blog posts, location, photos, reviews, and status-updates, to name a few are now being made available to third parties. Third parties? Yes, you know academics, analysts, marketers, and a multitude of other bottom feeders.
One such company, InfoChimps, an Austin, TX based company that specializes in structured data, is selling the data offered by MySpace. This is legal for MySpace to do, since it owns all content on the social networking site. It probably says so in all of the fine print you just scrolled down through when you signed up. But who reads that stuff anyways? And those warnings by concerned friends? Just nonsense from people stuck in the past, afraid of technology. Dinosaurs destined to be extinct.
Well turns out they were right. All the time you were having fun on here…remember all of that stuff? Well these now it’s time for the third party interests to have their fun.
A statement from MySpace reads: “MySpace is not selling user data to InfoChimps. Myspace provides developers, including companies such as InfoChimps, with free access to publicly available real-time data (such as status-updates, music, photos, videos) using our Real Time Stream feed. We have identified the need for third-party developers who can’t handle the size of our fll feed to still have access to the data in a different format. For this reason InfoChimps is offering developers a pre-packaged version of our Real Time Stream, as a value-added service.”
Consider this the next time you log into a social networking site. You never know who might be buying your status-updates.
Posted on 03/19/10
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