30 Jan 11 Does facebook really controls the privacy?

Facebook, leading social networking website. It uses Like as its best feature to share your thoughts.

But what happens to the advertisements around your wall?

You guessed it right, Internet advertisement campaigns work based on your likes. Producer of Google chrome and Mozilla Firefox introduced the features and ways by which they could actually stop violating your privacy.

They also come at a time when the social media world is moving in the direction of highly personalized ads based on your activities, relationships and profile information.

Facebook has just rolled out a feature called Sponsored Stories that lets marketers repurpose activities such as “liking” a fan page, checking into a retail store or interacting with a branded app as advertisements that users see when they log in to the social network.

And this happens automatically — any time you interact with a brand on Facebook, your action could be used as an ad that entices your friends to do the same. For the moment, there’s also no way to opt yourself out of being featured.

After huge changes facebook came across privacy violation case, but is it actually controlling the privacy?