If the product is free, you’re not the customer.
So true! A good corollary: You are paying for it somehow.
Its free. Anyone can have access to your behavioral and statistical info if you want to use their platform. There are security measures a user can take, but you have to keep up with them.
Exactly. What is it that people don’t understand? They think Facebook exists to help people communicate with each other?
If you use FaceBook, Twitter, etc...YOU are the product. YOU and YOUR likes, needs, and opinions are the things being mined, extracted, and sold.
You surrender that information voluntarily. What is it that people don’t understand about this?