Is that a lie or oversight?

“Maryam only shares some of her profile information with everyone. If you know Maryam, send her a message or add her as a friend.”

Or, maybe it's because you are missing the point. The privacy people are worried about isn't what they type in their status updates, it's all that personal info like their address, phone number, and kid's names. I notice that regardless of how “open as can be” your profile is that there is no information about your children. I assume this is deliberate in order to protect them and their privacy. Your response will no doubt be that people shouldn't put that kind of information online. However, this is EXACTLY why Facebook is big and popular. Family and friends join Facebook when they have never joined anything else online in order to stay in touch with real people from their real lives. Take that away and you have just another techie social community and Internet marketing platform that your Mother has never heard of and would never join in a million years.

Sure, when you use your Facebook profile as a carefully executed extension of your self-promotion strategy, who cares about privacy. When you actually use it to stay in touch with friends and family (which is why Facebook has 500 million users) then its another thing entirely. Of course, if the former stays and the latter goes, then Facebook becomes just another Digg + MySpace waiting for Google, Microsoft, or Yahoo to step in and buy up a little extra traffic.

Ever heard of the Patriot Act?? This took away our last rights to privacy.

Privacy in U.S. not any more!! Not since technology & Bush.

All we can do is our best to keep what we want out of the public eye… & take the responsibility to live a life we are not ashamed of.

Bless~ed Be! & Regards,
Elizabeth Jo