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6 Thomas GlennFilm major at the University of Okla-homa steps away from class proj-ects and takes film to another level.

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11 Nicki MinajTLM Staff Writer, Kendacey Whittaker, gives her take on the controversial Nicki Minaj.

13 The Struggle to move on after they cheatOklahoma City Therapist, Kelly D. Groves, gives advice about how to deal with cheating.

16 Fro’ RealWhat is your relaxer really saying? Britch-ette Reid discusses the natural hair move-ment.

18 Restaurant Report TLM dines at Cous Cous Cafe.

20 Make way for the princessRap artist Mellokie expresses her views as an emcee and a female in the music industry.

24 Standout StyleThe best colors for your skin tone.

28 Get your Google out of my Facebook you twit!There is talk about Google and Facebook buying Twitter. What does this mean for free speech and the average consumer?

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TG“They say right before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. Just make sure it’s worth watching.”

Perfect words from a future film and production mogul. Thomas A. Glenn II, also known as TAG II, is breaking all sorts of barriers in the state of Oklahoma.

By: Princess Kendacey Whittaker, Contributing Writer

Since 2007 he’s been putting in work and showcasing his talents across the nation.

As a film major at the University of Oklahoma, he steps out-side of class projects and takes film to another level. Surpass-ing the title of entrepreneur, not only does he own TAG II Pro-ductions, but he’s also the fuel that keeps the engine going.

He writes, produces, directs and composes his own material, a task that wouldn’t be possible without a little help along the way. He’s well known on the campus of OU and his name is synonymous with excellence.

He’s extremely talented in the area of film and production and has received numerous awards including Outstanding Video of the Year, Lifesavers Award, and Best Actor Award, just to name a few.

His latest production, “Satellites,” a short film about self love and the misconceptions of life, has been entered into vari-ous film festivals such as South By Southwest, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, and The London United Film Fes-tival. Glenn also produces pageants for many on campus organizations and is working on his major feature film, “Gide-on.”

His talent doesn’t stop at making films; he’s produced pag-eants for various organizations on campus and even works with former local entertainer Lonnie Barker Jr. Needless to say Glenn is on his grind and has no intention of stopping anytime soon.

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“They say right before you die, your whole life flashes before your eyes. Just make sure it’s worth watching.”

Perfect words from a future film and production mogul. Thomas A. Glenn II, also known as TAG II, is breaking all sorts of barriers in the state of Oklahoma.

TLM: Where does your inspira-tion come from?TG: It comes from classic Holly-wood cinema – a lot of the ‘40s cinema. I like movies like The Big Sleep, Double Indemnity, and of course, The Godfather trilogy, which is my favorite. I also like more modern films. I’m a fan of Scorsese, Spielberg, David Fincher, and Christopher Nolan. Visionaries like that in-spire me to be more visionary with the camera. God and Je-sus of course – true inspiration comes from them.

TLM: Tell me about Satellites.TG: I actually got the idea while I was sitting in Arabic class, and I was thinking what if I just shook my teachers hand, and I got the knowledge he had. And that’s where Satel-lites came from. And then Be-yonce’s record “I AM” came out and it was really different. I thought it was an interesting concept about love. So I took the strange concept about the character touching his girlfriend and knowing what she thinks, and taking his whole reality into

another direction. I kept the whole reality theme and tried to describe what Beyonce’s Satellites meant to me, and I came up with self love.

TLM: What motivates you to keep going?TG: When I fail at something, it motivates me to push myself harder. Also, my father is my biggest critic. I’m really trying to impress him. He’s never given me a compliment.

TLM: Who is your biggest influ-ence?TG: Phil Jackson, the coach of the Lakers. He’s smooth, he coaches in practice and when it’s show time, he doesn’t re-ally have to do much. Just win championships. That’s what I want, is to win championships.

TLM: What should readers know about TAG II?TG: Well, we’re the best! (laughs). They should know that I strive for perfection, even though perfection is rarely ob-tained if ever, and that is my goal. Perfection.

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TLM: If you weren’t doing this, what would you be doing?TG: I actually thought about this last night. I was confused. I was thinking if this isn’t what I’m supposed to be doing…if this isn’t what God wanted me to do with my life, what on earth would I be doing? You know? I really don’t know anything else.

TLM: So there’s nothing you’ve ever want-ed to do.TG: No. Nothing at all.

TLM: What are your biggest fears?TG: I want to be challenged, but I’m afraid of the people around me being 10 times better than me. Competition. Which is a challenge, and I like that, but that’s my fear.

TLM: Ultimately, what are your goals, per-sonally?TG: Take care of my parents. I really want them to have everything, My dad wants to live in Malibu and I want to give my mom the world. Show them my apprecia-tion.

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By: Princess Kendacey Whittaker, Contributing Writer

With alter-egos including the crazed maniac, Ro-man Zolanski, and the very sexual Nicki Lewin-

ski, everyone in the urban world can’t keep their mouths shut about the first lady of

Young Money. TLM Staff Writer, Kend-acey Whittaker, gives her take on the

controversial Nicki Minaj.

Nicki Minaj

She is rapidly becoming a house-hold name in the hip hop world. As the hottest female MC in the scene, Nicki Minaj has no ex-pectation of leaving her throne anytime soon. After signing on to Young Money, a record label founded by Lil Wayne in 2003, she quickly climbed to the top of the charts with hit songs like “Your Love” and “Right Through Me.” In addition to releasing hit songs, Mi-naj debuted her first album Pink Fri-day, which hit stores last November. Needless to say, she’s been on her grind since her days behind the lime-light, and her hard work has definitely been paying off.

Minaj has a way with lyrics. She’s been bringing something different to the rap game that most people have never expected from a female artist. She has the talent to lyrically destroy any of her male counterparts in a rap battle and the sexuality to melt their hearts at the same time.

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downsides. Her persona has raised a lot of eyebrows since she popped up on the scene.

Some people believe she’s way too animated, and that it’s just a mask to cover up the ‘real Nicki,’ as if they know who that really is. Some say she’s the black Lady Gaga – over-the-top and shocking in every way possible.

As for any plastic surgery that she’s been rumored to have done in the course of her big break, she is smart to stay on the hush, continuing to keep spectators guessing.

Unfortunately, critics still also like to la-bel her a knock-off Lil Kim, which even drove Minaj to create the song, “Ro-mans Revenge,” as she fired shots at the hip hop veteran. In return, Lil Kim constructed a diss song titled “Black Friday,” which in my opinion, failed in comparison.

I guess these factors about Minaj just adds more to her appeal.

Instead of sticking to plain old boring Nicki, she’s the Nicki Minaj – a persona that no one can duplicate.

After listening to her album Pink Fri-day, I’ve come to the conclusion that she’s just another misunderstood art-ist. To all her haters, her critics, and the people who like to pass judg-ment, just give Nicki a chance!

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By: Lola AdeyemiOwner, Creative Marketing Director

Standing at the door with her arms crossed, she waits, glaring at her cell phone. She had been frantically pacing around her apartment, waiting for her boy-friend of almost four years to arrive.The door opens. He walks in and an argument begins, the same re-petitive way it’s began for the last couple of years.In a raised voice she says, “Where have you been?” Her frustration started to build up. “You’ve been with that girl again, haven’t you?” she accuses. “No, that was three years ago! But I should ask you the same question,” he replies with a sarcastic tone.

The struggle to move on

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This scenario is common among couples that have dealt with an is-sue of infidelity in their relationship, and whom have decided to con-tinue to be together after the fact. The cou-ple would usually forget to forgive, and instead keeping track of each other’s wrongdoings and adding onto the “rela-tionship score board.” “Victims of the other par-ty’s transgressions can fall into the bad habit of continuously resurfacing the [incident] because the actions caused them either emotional pain or discomfort,” said Kelly D. Groves, an Oklahoma City therapist.

In some occurrences, one person cheating may cause bitterness

within their partner, caus-ing him or her to retaliate. Ultimately, the cheated eventually becomes the cheater. “Two wrongs don’t stop a fight,” Groves said. “Cheating, in order to ‘get even’ only contin-ues the cycle of pain and anger.”

For further facilitation of a healthy relationship to transpire after a transgres-sion, both parties must agree to forgive, forget and move on,” Groves pointed out.

Sometime, forgiving isn’t as easy as saying the words “I forgive you,” but Groves says failing to do so will cause stunted growth of a relationship. Continuing to mention the incident of infidelity is “an attempt to cause the same pain or discomfort to the transgressor,” he said.

In order for the relation-

ship to come back to a peaceful state and for the couple to move forward, “both parties must strive to function as a unit, rather than as individuals looking for an upper hand over their significant other.” Groves said. “A healthy, positive relationship should focus on the positives of their relationship, and learn from the negatives.”

Now, when faced with decisions to move for-ward in a relationship following a transgression, both parties have to ask themselves if they have the capacity to move on. If not, the likelihood for a healthy relationship is diminished.

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1. Evaluate if you have the capacity to forgive the person and/or if you have the capacity to forgive yourself.2. Be able to identify when you find yourself keeping a tally of wrong doings or keeping a re-lationship scoreboard.3. Be willing to seek professional relationship guidance.4. Be willing to let the other party go if you cannot forgive them.

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‘fro realBy Brichette ReidContributing Writer

Black women are told from the tender age of 3 that their hair is only pretty when relaxed. Subcon-sciously, what’s being perpetuated is the thought that what we are born with is not beautiful enough. Everyone already knows about the history of America and the pres-sure Black women continue to have to look more Caucasian. This pressure has been passed down to this generation without our knowl-edge.

It is a common belief that relaxed hair is just “what you are supposed to do” as an African American woman, which in turn, has developed into a generational curse. We must tell our young women that they are beautiful just the way they were created.

The American society is a very plastic and artificial culture. As Black wom-en, many of us need to realize that

we are beautiful, naturally, and this needs to be shown to the world. There is an underground battle going on be-tween the natural hair movement and the era of the weave. This movement is not visible because of its versatility.

Natural hair has so many subtle styles that in some cases, you’re not able to tell that the woman even wore her hair naturally. From a pressed style that resembles relaxed hair, to a big Afro, natural hair takes so many forms. The era of the weave is bigger than ever before. Anyone can turn on the TV and see celebrities with their long hair and think that that is the only way to be glamorous. The fakeness of the celebrity world has infiltrated into our reality. The only way to be beautiful is to look like the porcelain dolls known as Beyonce, Rihanna, and all other weave-wearing celebrities.

If we embrace the beauty of what Black women are born with, that could be a powerful change in America. Hopefully this natural movement is not a phase disguised as something big-ger. A woman with natural hair has a certain confidence about her because there is nothing fake about her. She is presenting herself to the world with ev-erything she was born with. That takes courage in a world where what you are born with is inadequate. It is time to let our Black women know that you are the most beautiful when you show the world you’re true self.

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By: Bola AdeyemiContributing Writer

Cous Cous Café is a cozy restaurant on the corner of May and NW 61st Terrace that brings exotic cuisine to Okla-homa. Their menu mainly con-sists of authentic traditional Moroccan (North African) cuisine. Although the location is small and simple, Cous Cous offers big taste.

I visited Cous Cous Café twice and had two different experi-ences on both.

On my first visit, I went about 8 p.m. on a Saturday night. The staff was very friendly and helped answer all of our ques-tions.

Cous Cous Café’s menu is easy to understand, with two main categories to choose from: the Tagine section, or the Non-Tagine section. A Tagine is a traditional Moroccan cone shaped pot that cooks stew and meat slowly at a very low

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temperature, usually served over saffron rice.

The Tagine pot locks in all the aromas and flavors of the spices and meat until the pot is opened, sort of like the traditional pressure cooker. Some of the spices used in traditional Moroccan cooking include ginger, saffron, olives, garlic, cumin, turmeric, pepper and pa-prika.

The Non-Tagine menu consists of grilled or braised meats, vegetables served over rice, or salads.

I chose from the Non-Tagine section mainly because it came with a salad, and I was in the mood for some green. I had braised lamb chops over saffron rice and a side salad, while my friend ordered the Lamb Shank Tagine with mixed vegetables over rice.

About 15 to 20 minutes later, we received our food. I was absolutely intrigued by the lamb

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shank Tagine that my friend ordered and was not at all impressed by my braised lamb, rice and salad combo.

The lamb shank Tagine came in a traditional Tagine pot and when the waitress opened it, we were filled with excitement. The lamb was filled with beautiful colors, sensual aromas, heat and invitation.

My second visit to Cous Cous Café was a bit different. I had experience under my belt so I was going to use that to my advantage. I went with a different friend so she was the Moroc-can cuisine virgin and I was able to guide her through this journey.

We went on a rainy, cold afternoon and we started off with the delicious hot Moroccan tea, which has fresh mint leaves and comes pre-sweet-ened. The environment included col-lege kids Facebook-ing, so it felt com-fortable for us.

This time I ordered the Lamb Shank Tagine and my friend ordered the Chicken Tagine both with mixed veg-etables over rice. Like my first visit, I was equally impressed with the pre-

sentation of both Tagine dishes.

The lamb meat was fall-off-the-bone tender, the sauce was delicious and the tea was heaven. I also helped myself to my friend’s Chicken Tagine, which also tasted tender and deli-cious. We also tried a variety of Cous Cous Café’s cookies and pastries they offer for desert.

On this second time, I thoroughly en-joyed my experience, the staff was great, and the food was delicious.

I definitely encourage anyone who is interested in taking a small trip outside of burger-and-fries-ville, to give Cous Cous Café a try. The menu price is be-tween $10-15 a plate, which is worth it for the food, experience, and great service.

For optimum enjoyment on your visit, you should stick to authentic Moroc-can food, and try the traditional Tag-ine cuisines, which come in lamb, beef, fish, chicken and vegetables. I also advise you to try the hot Moroc-can tea. Take your taste buds on an inexpensive vacation to Morocco and go to Cous Cous Café.

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Mellokie has long been identified the Princess of her hometown, Tulsa, but she’s actually been calling herself ‘Queen’ lately. Yes, she admits it, but she has every right. Not many fe-male emcees from Okla-homa has reached a cali-ber of success as Mellokie. Here, she gives a preview of her life, her music and her experience as a woman in such a male-dominated industry.

Make way for the Princess

By: Dianne Tordillo, Contributing Writer & Editor

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Eight years ago, Melanie J. Fields and her cousin, Juanisha was listening to Devin the Dude’s interlude, “Bust One for Ya.” Playing around with recording music, Fields decided to flip the track and turned it into a song titled “Michael Dro,” a song that eventually caught the attention of many in her hometown of Northside Tulsa.

Seeing people’s positive reactions and hearing the many requests for more tracks from the young talent, Fields considered this her musical calling. When she graduated from Booker T. Washington High School, the 18-year-old packed her stuff, said goodbye to her supportive family, and moved to New York to pursue a music career.

Now at 24 years old, with one album and several mix tapes later, the widely-respected singer, writer and lyricist has solidified her career with her unique, sexy and powerful music style, being one of the few female hip hop entertainers who represent Oklahoma, and who represent it well.

And the fact that she’s all about girl power only adds to her appeal.

There are more sides to “Mellokie” than meets the eye. For one, she has added the producer title to her name, as well as even starting to dabble in some audio engineering. Secondly, she juggles her music persona with a regular 9-to-5 job, working at a Tulsa hospital.

“At the end of the day, I have to make a living just like everyone else,” she said. “One day, that won’t be a problem, but I am very humble and

God-fearing…and I know whatever will be, will be.”

Last, but not least, she lives and breathes representing Oklahoma.

Take her stage name for example. She wanted people to know right off the bat where she’s from. So, she took her high school nickname, “Mell” and tacked it onto a term commonly used to describe a native of Oklahoma – “Okie.”

But unlike Beyonce’s “Sasha Fierce” alter-ego, Fields claims that the “ Mellokie” to Melanie Fields, is no different from each other.

“Mellokie is a part of Melanie,” she said. “I’m the same no matter what name.”

Her musical style is a unique blend of hip hop, R & B, pop and blues, as she describes it. Because there aren’t many female singers who rap, or female rappers who sing, and who actually kill the mic while doing it, Mellokie’s rarity in the music industry gives her complete entitlement to her alternate handle, Princess of tha Thugz, a title that plays off Tulsa’s commonly-referred alias in the urban community – “Thugtown.”

Her admiration for multi-talented women in hip hop says a lot about her style as an artist. She favors such icons as Lauryn Hill and Bernanadette Cooper, women who both sing and rap alike. Bernadette Coopeer’s influence on Mellokie even drove Mellokie to name one of her mixtapes “The Bernadette Cooper Edition,” which is available for download on

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the online mixtape source, Datpiff.com.

“Bernadette Cooper was a writer, singer and producer of the singing group “Klymaxx” in the 80’s. I listened to her growing up, and my dad had [her group]’s album, along with Bernadette’s solo album,” Mellokie said. “I had never heard a woman rhyme before, but homegirl was spittin’, and turns around and sings like crazy. I loved it! I see a lot of myself in her and that’s why I used the name…”

It’s only understandable that being such an innovative woman in the male-dominated hip hop scene would heighten the competition. But truth is, she’s gotten more love from the guys than she expected.

“Who would have ever known that I would have dudes sayin’ any bars off [my song] ‘Top Notch,’” she said.

Seeing grown men lip-synch to her women-empowering lyrics , as well as hearing other male rappers interested in collaborating with her on music projects lets Mellokie know that she’s

doing something right.

“They love it. They’d want to do music together, and get my CDs, and then later want another one because by then, their girls have already discovered my CD and won’t give it back,” Mellokie said, before laughing. “I get much respect as an artist, and at the end of the day, real recognize real.”

Having yet to break out of the underground scene,

Mellokie isn’t worried about what the future holds for her music career.

“Whatever happens, I just want to remain in control, and not lose myself for nothin’,” she said.

Mellokie started making appearances and performing in 2005, in cities including Dallas, New York, Norman, Langston, Joplin and of course, Tulsa and Oklahoma City. She has one album out to date, “Northside Story,” which can be purchased on iTunes. Her second album, “Northside Story 2,” and her third album, “Diamond in the Rough,” are still in the works.

She currently finished a mixtape with fellow Tulsa

artist, CO2 Da Great, titled “Mello2,” as well as solo mixtape, “Miss Black Tulsa.” She plans to go on tour some time soon.

“Whatever happens, I just want to remain in control, and not lose myself for nothin’.”

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In fashion, colors have an important role to play. Major fashion statements generally come from complementing colors.

Bright, primary or secondary, colors can be limitless if done the right way. Certain colors look better depending on your skin tone. Some vibrant colors can easily make you appear tanned, while others can even make you look pale and washed out.

To stand out, another thing one can focus on is patterns. Designs and shapes can easily make an outfit more eye-catching, with endless options including animal prints, stripes and ab-stract arrangements.

One disclaimer, however, is to remem-ber not to pair too many different pat-terns together. When it comes to busy

designs on a piece of clothing, bal-ance them with subtle colors, so you don’t over-do it. Know the difference between standing out and doing way too much.

The most successful book on seasonal color analysis was Carole Jackson’s Color Me Beautiful (1980 ). According to the Color Me Beautiful method of determining the best colors for your skin tone, eye color and hair color, your personal color palette can be broken down into four seasons: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

Winter women have black, very dark or cool-toned hair. Her skin is pink-ish if light, olive if medium and blue-ish if dark. Winter women’s eyes are gen-erally dark brown or bright blue.She looks better in silver jewelry than in gold.

STAND OUT STYLE

Fashion is a fun way to express yourself. It’s your way of showing your personality and creativity. So, throw open your closet and ask, “How can I make this outfit different?”

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By: Daniel Simon, Staff Writer

Pure white is better for her than cream. Bright, pure, cool colors such as jewel tones suit winter women best. Great colors for winter women are blue-toned reds, cobalt blue, royal blue, true purple, black and pure white. Dark skin tone and high-contrast win-ters can wear the brightest and dark-est of these jewel-tone colors, while lower contrast winters will want to tone them down a little, but not too much, as winters look terrible in powdered or muddied colors like pastels or heath-ers. Bright, warm colors such as true orange might work, but winter women will still look better in cool tones. Black,

navy blue, red or hot pink look great on almost all winters, while beige, orange and gold make winters look washed out.

Spring women have golden blonde, reddish-brown or auburn hair, along with warm skin tones. Most spring women have porcelain-colored skin and blue, green or hazel eyes. Gold jewelry suits spring women better than silver does, and cream looks bet-ter against their skin than pure white. Springs look great in clear, but warm colors like peach, golden brown, ivory and coral. They should avoid black

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and white, which are too stark, and muted colors, which clash with their clear, bright coloring.

Summer women have cool skin tones, pale hair and eyes, and low contrast between their skin and hair, which means they look good in cool-toned but muted colors such as soft neu-trals and pastels. Examples of colors that look best on summers include powder blue, dusty pink, mauve, lavender, plum and pale yellow. Intense, vivid hues, in-cluding black, white or orange, are too harsh for summers.

Autumn women have warm skin tones like peach for light skin tones, golden beige for medium skin tones or golden brown for dark skin tones. Most autumn women have golden brown eyes, and their hair can be golden blonde, reddish or dark brown. Their hair and skin tone have depth and richness, so spicy, gold-toned, earthy col-ors look best on them. Camel, beige, olive, orange, gold and dark brown are great colors for autumns-think fall foliage and spices. Autumns are also the only people who can wear rich warm grays successfully. Autumns should avoid black, white and most cool colors, which will wash them out.

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You have one pending friend request from Big Business. What happens when companies have our personal information--

“facebook has turned away from its initial mission.”

By: Daniel SimonStaff Writer

Google and Facebook are now considering buy-ing Twitter for $500 million this year. These buyouts of smaller companies are alarming.

Similarly, YouTube was bought by Google in 2006 for $1.65 billion and as a result, the website clearly changed to a way for large corporations to make even more money through ads. Once it was a site that fostered creativity and information sharing.

Now every time you want to watch a video on YouTube, you’re slammed with spam, advertisements, and corporate-owned channels that are only seeking to make more profit. The very nature of YouTube dramatically shifted.

Twitter and Facebook were originally applications for consumers to stay connected to their friends, share mul-timedia and their thoughts on issues.

Facebook has turned away from its initial mission. Now Facebook is about luring advertisers in because of the

sensitive data that Face-book records and tracks for each of its users.

Advertisers now slam Face-bookers with personal ads that are meant to bring in more money.

Most alarming is since 2004 the increase Facebook’s ablility to share all user’s personal data with large corporations.

Large corporations are not con-cerned with apps or sharing media, their first priority is to increase their bottom line.

Grabbing concerns of legislators re-garding the user’s right to right pri-vacy. The Internet holds all informa-tion posted on Facebook forever and companies will use this information as long as they want to.

Curently, there is no way to be “de-leted from the internet.”

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“People never thought when they were posting this data [such as their phone numbers] that it would be accessible to anyone but friends. There’s a real mismatch of expectations around that. Even if Facebook comes back with new protections, they’re still saying, ‘Hey, get over it, your data is public.’ I feel badly for users that Face-book’s approach is ‘You give us anything and it’s all fair game.’”

Mary Hodder, chairman of the Personal Data Ecosys-temConsortium, sees this as Facebook’s willingness to change the rules of the game. She points out:

Facebook shares phone numbers and contact info with third parties

What’s good for corporations is not always good for America. Just look at big businesses’ grasp on American journalism.

Every cable news network is owned by a big business. Journalists are fear-ful to report on business scandals and their overreach out of fear of losing their jobs.

We have seen the drop of journalistic integrity and virtues in recent years because of big businesses.

Soon they will take over too many aspects of our lives.

If Google eventually owns YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter, then what will stop them from tracking our ISP ad-dresses if we paint these companies in a negative light? How do we know they aren’t doing this now?

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