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The article "Facebook Is Using You" is about social companies and networks using your personal information to there advantage. The main points of Lori Andrews article is that your information is not private no matter where you put it.  The companies use the little things that you may write or search and determine what advertisement to send you. Facebook makes most of it's money from advertisements. Facebook made $3.2 billion dollars in advertisements. Google made 36.2 billion dollars in advertisements in 2011. The advertisements you get are not by coincidence but they actually have been chosen for you! Something's people write on is used against them in the court system. No matter what you put in the search box or on a social network once it's online it's not private anymore. A law called the do not track law. The law will make sure the information you decide to share on the internet is private if that is your wishes. I agree with the law. I think people's private business should remain private. I don't understand why companies and networks are allowed to harass people with advertisements that they don't wish to have. I am learning to be more mindful of what I put on social networks because I don't want to be taken advantage of or people to misunderstand what I write. I wouldn't what the wrong person to see what I wrote. I know that some of the stuff I may write will affect me. Even though people just get on social networks to have fun and to connect with friends. Nonetheless I still enjoy getting on twitter and some other networks : )