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Do people ever fully understand what they're getting into, I'd say not. As for your second point; you can take facebook as they present it or you don't have to

• jerf 17y ago
  If you can say both of those things at once, you missed my point. You can't deliberately "take it or leave it" (your second paragraph) if you don't know what "it" is (your first paragraph). The point is not that I demand that Facebook be legally constrained to provide me a high-privacy option. I would fight such a law. The point is that nearly nobody would even understand what such a choice is, and in an environment where nobody fully understands the implications of their actions, it is not a legitimate argument to then cite people's actions as supporting the current system. You could argue that people would still make the same choices even if they did fully understand the transactions they are making (and I'd counterargue after that), but you can't base an argument on current people making conscious choices when they aren't in fact making conscious choices.
  • dantheman 17y ago
    People should just assume everything that is on the internet and not encrypted is public. It's safe that way. Heck, people think email is private. I think people need to realize this is something new and that their might be negative consequences that they cannot foresee. They should think, if this is data is public what is the worst that can happen, if this data is correlated with other data i have online what can happen.