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If we have to assume no privacy around the data on the site, it's much, much easier to just export that assumption to Facebook and keep using that since it has

If we have to assume no privacy around the data on the site, it's much, much easier to just export that assumption to Facebook and keep using that since it has the benefit of existing. The social-service your friends are using will have the same access to the data your friend has access to, and if compromised, you are also compromised. So now you have to trust the integrity of potentially hundreds (actually infinite, since the ability for your friends to carry your authentication for them to access you to a new service would be central) of services - which you can't/don't - and then it's easier to just not trust Facebook.

pyre 17y ago
> If we have to assume no privacy around the data on the site Where did you draw that conclusion? If you accidentally send the wrong data to the wrong person you've violated your own privacy due to your own mistake. That's a lot different than you specifying that someone shouldn't get a certain piece of information, but that person gets it anyway because the software erroneously allows them to see it. It's also a lot different than allowing third parties access to your private data.