I've always kept my online profiles as close to real life as possible just to ensure I never get bit in the ass over it. I have been on the internet long enough

I've always kept my online profiles as close to real life as possible just to ensure I never get bit in the ass over it. I have been on the internet long enough to see many people around me get screwed over for trying to live larger on the internet only to be caught and it just never seemed appealing to me. That said I had Facebook locked down as much as possible as soon as I could. Once I entered the workforce after college I cleaned out the most insane pictures but wanted to make sure any company looking to hire me understood I was a human being who also had fun and wasn't afraid to be myself. I felt like in a way presenting my real self was the only way to do anything public online. I still don't like the way Facebook does things, obviously, but what really scares me is the folks I love and am friends with who roll their eyes when I tell them about what is really going on and why it's bad. As this latest situation has shown us it truly doesn't matter how strong our individual security is if we are easily figured out just by being associated with ONE SINGLE PERSON who doesn't lock their associated / friend-of-ours account down. That's the kicker that makes this just a terrible thing to me. The warnings already fell on deaf ears but now it seems that everybody, even the most careful, are caught in the mix anyways -- even if they did every single step perfectly along the ENTIRE route that was their internet social media life. The un-locked down accounts were essentially unknowing spy cells that could be tapped at any moment to uncover everything about the most locked down people they were associated with. As this CA situation demonstrated it only took a few 100,000 accounts to unlock 50,000,000 others. If we are to assume that those 100,000's of accounts were able to hold the keys to the information Facebook wasn't legally allowed to share with 3rd parties due to "Privacy Policy" and legalities than I'd also, personally, safely assume that regardless of the way the 3rd party backdoor got to those locked down accounts was only one route to obtain that info. The other route? Facebook most likely had all of that information all along anyways through craftier methods such as non-FB pages with like buttons, cross referencing across their other suite of apps (Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram), and mining data from other sources like competitive social media networks, dating applications, and who knows what else really? They've shown a blatant, almost blood thirsty-like mission towards harvesting personal data by any means necessary -- even people who have never been on FB have profiles about them -- so I've never put anything past them and have rarely been surprised when the actual truth comes out.