See where this is going? [original]

The Electronic Frontier Federation (EFF) recently published timeline of Facebook’s eroding private policy. What really irks me is how Zukerberg suckered people into Facebook, and slowly but methodologically took  away your rights and your ability to control your own information and profile. I’ve always live by this:

“Never expect anything you reveal on the internet to be private, no matter what anyone tells you”

And for good reason, because what is even more disturbing is the fact that Facbook will store your information even after you delete it.

While some have quit Facebook completely I haven’t made that kind of bold leap yet. Until another social network comes along that appeals to me, I’ll probably stick with it (And if you think Facebook will never fall, well… that’s what people said about Myspace not even 5 years ago). That doesn’t mean I won’t take some sort of action. Ever since Facebook took away my control of who can comment on my notes on Facebook, I’ve stopped importing my blog’s RSS feed. I’ve replace most Facebook status updates with Twitter updates (I recently reached 5000 tweets!), replaced a majority of my shared links with Google Reader Shared Items / Google Buzz and I don’t even post as many photos as I used to (keeping a majority of them on Flckr instead). Yes, that’s my little stand against Facebook, for now.

Every CEO of a social network should be required to use the default privacy settings for all of their accounts on the service.
- anildash

additional reading:

• Electronic Frontier Federation
• Wikipedia entry : “Criticisms of Facebook (Privacy Concerns)”
• The most important difference between Google Buzz and Facebook