My relation with Facebook is both functional and technical going by the terms of an IT professional.  We belong to the category who advises social media is addictive and is capable of stealing your precious time.  So the undercurrent of my relationship with Facebook must be clear by now.  My negativity for these social media networks comes from the inner knowledge of its functioning and their so called privacy rules and settings.  In one of the assignments given to me by a client whom I do not want to name, the request was to scrape data of girls in the age group of 18 – 24 present in the picture and the criteria is she must be alone without any company.  Whatever may be the purpose, it did not sound well as we were offered above normal rates to do the same.  We refused but we are sure the client would have found somebody to do the job.

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