Exactly. For social networking, people go to the big, nice-looking site that all of their friends seem to like. It sells your grandmother on the slave market? O

Exactly. For social networking, people go to the big, nice-looking site that all of their friends seem to like. It sells your grandmother on the slave market? Oh, too bad, no one told me this! I think Facebook has survived long enough in a very competitive market segment that they can't claim to be stupid. They do care about privacy etc. - to the extent that they need it to remain in the market, but not one ounce more, and to some extent their business model (not charging their users, ever) means they have to do scary stuff on the side (with all privacy implications) to remain competitive with for-fee sites (e.g., Xing, LinkedIn) as well as sites that are financed through generic advertising.