Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

Why does the NSA need to go tap phones when people are posting all sorts of private data on public forums?

Pentagon sets its sights on social networking websites

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19025556.200?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg19025556.200

"New Scientist has discovered that 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."