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I think it should be clear to everyone at this point that nothing on Facebook is private. Don't put anything there you wouldn't post publicly.

• SamWhited 8y ago
  Any company that talks about their old "move fast and break things" motto as if it's a good idea should be treated this way (or not used at all). In industry perspective: We call ourselves "engineers", but real engineers are held accountable when they sign off on using an untested metal alloy in bridge joists and then people die when the bridge collapses. Facebook's constant bad engineering may not kill people directly, but it does lead to a lot of really important information stolen, peoples financial future being ruined, and who knows what other consequences for their users. If you still work for Facebook in this day and age you should be ashamed of yourself; I know people can justify just about anything while claiming that they'll "make it better from the inside" or because they just need to collect a fat paycheck and are comfortable and don't want to look for something new, but we need to fight these impulses anywhere we work.
• ams6110 8y ago
  Beyond that, nothing online is private. And generally, nothing can be removed. There will always be bugs, mistakes, new vulnerabilities. Eventually it will get out.
  • lucb1e 8y ago
    Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead, sure. But that doesn't mean you have to assume that having something on the internet means it's going to leak all by itself. The advice we should be giving is not putting all of our eggs in centralized baskets Especially if we know the baskets have goals not aligned with our own, despite it being oh-so-convenient, but also not centralized in the first place.