No, really. They are. www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns

I'm not even kidding:

"Pentagon's National Security Agency, which specialises in eavesdropping and code-breaking, is funding research into the mass harvesting of the information that people post about themselves on social networks. And it could harness advances in internet technology - specifically the forthcoming "semantic web" championed by the web standards organisation W3C - to combine data from social networking websites with details such as banking, retail and property records, allowing the NSA to build extensive, all-embracing personal profiles of individuals."

The NSA is so smart! My Mom always told me, if you want people to be interested in you, show that you are interested in them. Thanks, NSA! Anyway, who didn't see this coming miles away? We should be flattered.

And why can't I make a goddamn text link on this stupid thing?