This crash has come at a time where Facebook is facing a host of other scandals. It is a platform used by a quarter of the world's population and unsurprisingly this brings with it a range of complications. It, along with its companies WhatsApp and Instagram, has an overwhelming amount of control over each of us, whether we want to admit it or not. A consistent problem with Facebook is data breaches of its user's information. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to a supposed breach of the data of 1.5 billion in September of this year, it seems to now be an unavoidable problem. We are living in an information economy, and we so easily forget that our personal data has become a marketable asset. We take the supposedly legitimate name of Facebook for granted and hand over information without thinking twice. Nothing is free, and the price of Facebook's 'free' services can be the loss of our personal privacy.