I think people are slowly realizing that social networks are going to be open and WILL use your data for whatever their business model needs in order to make mo

I think people are slowly realizing that social networks are going to be open and WILL use your data for whatever their business model needs in order to make money. Its still going to take some time though for that to fully sink in. I think the vocal people who feel burned fit into the early adopter category. I was on Facebook when it was only in a handful of schools and it was an amazing tool. At that time, it was well understood that your info was locked down to people outside your network. Now these Facebook dinosaurs (who overlap a lot with the tech crowd) feel lied to because things changed. That beautiful network where you could share personal moments with friends is gone. Expectations were set and then dashed. This pissed me off, and, while even though it is only a vocal minority now, a lot of other people too. Even though it sucks, I'm only on Linkedin now. I knew when I joined it was an open platform and anything I put up there would be viewed by current and future employers, which I'm okay with because that was my expectation. Facebook is trying to share people's data in an open way, akin to Linkedin, its just that the data people put up there was meant only to be shared with people that they knew, not for instance, the HR department of the company you are interviewing with.