berkleybc wrote:Whaddaya stupid. All of the "private info" discussed on these pages is available through to many sources to list. It took telemarketers about a week to access my new phone # somehow. Do I care, do I care if someone has my address. Get a grip here people we have much greater privacy concerns than this from much more evil sources than facebookThe issue I have with Facebook is that they change the rules in the middle of the game. I signed up for Facebook as a college student in 2005 or 2006, when nobody else was on Facebook. Facebook was less and less interesting to me as more people and "features" become a part of it. That wasn't really enough to make me leave, though; what was enough to make me leave is when they decided that because I was using some default security settings, they were allowed to change those settings to their new -- very open -- defaults.I have no qualms with sharing personal information about myself online. My contact information is easily available to anyone who knows the domain for my personal web site/Internet data repository (the front page is just some comment about how I didn't end my <body> tag). But I choose to share that. Facebook has little interest in letting me control my own account, so I deleted said account. For me, it's more a matter of principle than privacy.
berkleybc wrote:Whaddaya stupid. All of the "private info" discussed on these pages is available through to many sources to list. It took telemarketers about a week to access my new phone # somehow. Do I care, do I care if someone has my address. Get a grip here people we have much greater privacy concerns than this from much more evil sources than facebookThe issue I have with Facebook is that they change the rules in the middle of the game. I signed up for Facebook as a college student in 2005 or 2006, when nobody else was on Facebook. Facebook was less and less interesting to me as more people and "features" become a part of it. That wasn't really enough
 to make me leave, though; what was enough to make me leave is when they decided that because I was using some default security settings, they were allowed to change those settings to their new -- very open -- defaults.I have no qualms with sharing personal information about myself online. My contact information is easily available to anyone who knows the domain for my personal web site/Internet data repository (the front page is just some comment about how I didn't end my <body> tag). But I choose to share that. Facebook has little interest in letting me control my own account, so I deleted said account. For me, it's more a matter of principle than privacy.