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+<h2>On Facebook, Google+, and Ethical Social Networking</h2>
+<p>
+	TO COME: An introduction, a section on Google+, and a section on ethical social networking.
+</p>
+<h3>The Ethics of Facebook</h3>
+<p>
+	Facebook shares their users' personal information with third parties.
+	They use mere Web site design changes as an excuse to revert users'
+	privacy settings to unsafe defaults.  Their social platform has huge
+	security holes that allow personal information to be leaked.  One such
+	hole made some users' private chats accessible to all of their contacts.
+	Facebook also exposes users to malware and identity theft. [1] They
+	make it easy for application developers to collect personal information.
+	[2] The Wall Street Journal found that these application developers
+	collect this personal information, link it with other information, and
+	sell it to others. [3]
+</p>
+<p>
+	In general, Facebook has always operated on an opt-out basis.  In some
+	cases, you can actually disable third-party access to your information.
+	But you must always be on the lookout for new "features" or changes to
+	privacy settings.  Facebook always changes the way it collects
+	information, and it catches many people unaware.  But it's impossible to
+	opt out of things you don't even know about.  Recently, Facebook added a
+	feature they call "tag suggestions".  If you have photos on your
+	profile, Facebook can pick out people's faces and suggest names for
+	them.  This may sound useful, but it's the tip of an almost nightmarish
+	ethics iceberg in information systems.  Facebook uses facial recognition
+	software to make this work; they scan already-tagged photos and record
+	distinguishing facial features and then find photos with similar faces
+	and give them names.  They maintain a database of people's facial
+	features.  They never notified anyone about this database.  They never
+	asked users if they could record this information.  Instead, of course,
+	they made it an opt-out feature; you have to explicitly disable this
+	hidden feature to keep your facial information out of the database.
+	This new feature has even sparked an investigation by the European
+	Union. [4][5] But just imagine what Facebook could do with this
+	information (and consider their track record with personal information).
+	I suspect they may soon start selling facial data to other companies,
+	law enforcement agencies, and oppressive governments (I've heard that
+	the U.K. once used video camera footage to locate and arrest protesters,
+	so imagine what they could do with facial data).
+</p>
+<p>
+	Basically, Facebook is a business.  And you are not their customer.  You
+	are their product.  They are, in fact, selling their products to
+	advertisers.  That is, they use a person's face (without getting
+	permission and without paying anything) to advertise things to that
+	person's friends.  Claim to like something, and you've given a product
+	endorsement at a price advertising agencies would love. [6]
+</p>
+<p>
+	And they also seem to like selling out their users to governments and
+	limiting what their users can read and say.  After their recent
+	collaboration with Chinese partners, the Facebook platform was allowed
+	into China under political censorship.  At the time, Facebook lobbyist
+	Adam Conner remarked, "we're allowing too much, maybe, free speech".
+	[7][8] The Associated Press reported last month that Facebook sold out
+	hundreds of peaceful pro-Palestinian activists who had been organizing
+	events through the social platform.  Facebook allowed governments to
+	track its users' activities.  As a result, more than 300 peaceful
+	activists were added to airline terrorism watch lists and denied the
+	right to leave their countries.  International air travel was disrupted
+	as planes from Geneva and Italy were diverted for security inspections.
+	310 people were detained after landing in Israel on their way to stand
+	with Palestinians in a peaceful mission of solidarity and fact-finding.
+	[9][10] Imagine what might have happened if Facebook (and widespread
+	publicly-accessible computer networks for that matter) existed during
+	the civil rights movement.  Would there be racial equality in the United
+	States today?  Or would peaceful protesters organizing events have been
+	sold out and arrested before they could even meet?
+</p>
+<p>
+	But it seems you don't even have to use Facebook to get tracked by
+	Facebook.  Everyone who sees a "Like" button somewhere on the Web (as
+	I'm sure you have) can be tracked.  Facebook has the ability to map out
+	the browsing behavior of a massive number (a number that grows by tens
+	of millions each month) of Web users, even those who don't use Facebook.
+	[11] Again, imagine what they could do with such vast amounts of
+	information.
+</p>
+<p>
+	Things like these gaping holes in privacy, devious information
+	collection practices, abuse of users, censorship, and tracking inspired
+	Matt Lee, campaigns manager, and John Sullivan, executive director, of
+	the Free Software Foundation to write about Facebook's poor track record
+	with privacy and create rather amusing "Dislike" and "not f'd" buttons. [12]
+</p>
+<h3>References:</h3>
+<ol>
+	<li>
+		"Five Hidden Dangers of Facebook".  <span class="cite-title">CBS News</span>.  CBS Interactive
+		Inc.  May 11, 2010.
+		<a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/0/08/earlyshow/saturday/main6469373.shtml">&lt;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/0/08/earlyshow/saturday/main6469373.shtml&gt;</a>.
+	</li>
+	<li>TODO: Add the rest.</li>
+</ol>