Facebook Releases A Scrapbook App for Couples
Ashley Carman, writing for The Verge:
[The app] connects to Spotify for music sharing, and a couple can send each other photos, notes, cards, and voice memos. They can also use custom stickers and reactions. It’s free to use and seemingly doesn’t require a Facebook account, although users are subject to Facebook’s data rules, meaning the data people provide can be used for ad targeting.
Of course it can, Facebook is not in the business of giving anything away for free: any time you use a Facebook product, you are paying for it with as much data as Facebook is able to lap up.
Despite the fact that Tuned’s App Store page uses the word “private” four times, nothing about this app is private. Every time they use this word in the context of a product or service governed by the Facebook Data Policy, they are lying to you.
Last year, we learned Facebook was setting up a dating service, so this new project obviously seems related. Not only does Facebook want to try its hand at setting people up for intimate relationships, but they also want to analyze they behavior of couples who are already together. All of this makes Facebook better at manipulating people, and it sets them up to make more money through increasingly effective targeted advertising.
If you use this app, you’re nuts.