Facebook's open graph is seriously scary. Since I joined Facebook (circa Sept '07) I have defended their privacy standards, I thought were doing a great job, co

Facebook's open graph is seriously scary. Since I joined Facebook (circa Sept '07) I have defended their privacy standards, I thought were doing a great job, considering the shear size of the problem. Not so anymore. In the last two months, I've read more articles about their antics than in the last 3 years. Here are the significant problems I have with them now: 1) Defaulting to public for user posts 2) Open graph - any web developer or rogue person has much more power and access to my "personal" data, where's the opt-in instead of opt-out? 3) Random and chaotic code glitches, e.g., live chats being visible, private messages getting delivered to the wrong person. As a web developer, I know it's hard. We're humans, we make mistakes, but these are inexcusable. Even remotely decent testing would have uncovered them. To sum it all up, Facebook has a great thing going, 400m users, $1b valuation, large app database. But if they want to keep their dominance and users like me, they need to seriously review their stance toward privacy and user's rights. It isn't up to par.