Facebook, steal my data

One month FB chart compared to EKG of dead person
If you want to know whether it is okay for tech companies to give away our personal data, look no further than Facebook on a blah market day.  Over the past 52 weeks, FB has been up, it's been down, it took a relative "hit" when the news about Cambridge Analytica broke, and enjoyed a nice recovery when Mark Zuckerberg, testifying before Congress, didn't leak green fluid from his mouth like Ash in "Alien".  The point it, Facebook is going to be just fine, and will continue to force us to look at advertisements for Southwest and Orbitz one down in our news feed in perpetuity because we once booked a flight on Southwest using Orbitz.  Southwest can advertise to me all it wants, and make its flights from Denver to Cancun free, but I'm going to take a breather on them for the foreseeable future because, well, Facebook can steal my data all they want, but I suddenly don't want a window seat, because Russia knowing my first pet's name compared to being sucked through the window of an aircraft while in flight are two totally different things.  Yesterday, Southwest, as Keegan Michael Key was fond of saying, took it to a hole nutha level.

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