One Million Facebook Profile Entries Available for $5
There is not much that surprises online marketing guys these days. However, this offer was too good not to look into. An offer to purchase more than one million email addresses with name, last name and Facebook profile information for $5. Bogomil Shopov paid and received 12 Excel sheets, each containing the data of about 100,000 users.
Shopov said that "most" of the addresses are real and that he even knows some of the people listed. The fact that the data is available may not be so surprising. By now it's almost common knowledge that, if you value your privacy, Facebook is not a place you should be spending time.
What is surprising, is the ridiculously low cost. This indicates that there is an abundance in supply of Facebook profiles and those who collected addresses are beginning to sell their data cheap. Serious marketing people may not find much value in these data sets as they do not allow specific targeting, but then we have to realize that the data is available for just $5.
Such offers may come down much more to a privacy and security problem for cheesy email marketing, and malicious activities such as spamming and phishing.
Zuckenburgs goal is to make money, and he's going to do just that.
Using YOUR information.
I pity anyone who actually think FB users actually believe that FB protects their privacy.
FB users don't care about any of that crap you just said. All they care about is showing off to their peers, business profiles and etc. I don't know what kind of sources you guys have been reading to believe that FB users care so much about what happens inside, rather than what happens around them on the Internet. Unless Facebook does something to damage each individual's privacy that creates rage to the victim, not many users are going to quit, and knowing that they use your information and not using it yourself doesn't make you any smarter, but it gives you the mentality to think you are. It's simple sociology and psychology.
Bogomil Shopov
it is my sincerest hope that some script kiddie or hacker purchases the entire list and spams them all apps for their iCrap and see how much money they can make from all the credit card info on iDevices after a credit card was used to make a prior purchase.
i am tempted to believe it would probably total 10% of what the federal reserve controls.
something popular stupid like that could even be rhianna vs beyonce poll.
i hope i reached some one who will do this just so we can say 'we told you so' to FB users and iTards