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Social Perspective Heather Coder Google’s new privacy policy is great. There are a lot of people out there who can easily just Google someone’s name and find out loads of information about them. This new policy gives users the opportunity to delete any information about them that is on the web. People, however need to be careful for what they do put on the internet especially when it comes to social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter. One must remember that if they are going to put it on Facebook then they are putting it on the entire web. “Google already uses your search history to target advertisements in search, but it doesn't combine this data with its other services and products. So what this policy change means, simply, is that Google could potentially use information from your search history to target an advertisement to you in YouTube, Google Maps, and Gmail, among many other services. The company says it will also be able to better customize services for its users.” (The Huffington Post) There are many people out there who hate the ads that they see on their Facebook pages and any other website they may go on. However what if these ad’s were something of you interest. Would you then click on them or even take the time to read them? Some may still ignore them but it is a good idea overall. Now the bad thing about Google’s new privacy policy is that you are going to be tracked. Your web search history will be followed and stored on Google’s server for internal use. This may seems scary to many. This is what Google will use to relate ad’s to your pages that are run by Google, such as Youtube. Google has always collected this information but now the only difference is that they are using this information to improve the user’s experience.