Many replies on this topic remind me of that joke with the wife that sends her programmer husband to buy eggs. As if we're having some silly contest where the s

Many replies on this topic remind me of that joke with the wife that sends her programmer husband to buy eggs. As if we're having some silly contest where the smallest ambiguity or contradiction in criticizing Facebook completely negates their aberrant and anti-social behaviour. Obviously it's not the same thing, that was a list, a category of things which are in some way similar. If I include a dog, hippo and human in a list of creatures, would you complain that a human is not a dog? The issue is, they are selling something which they can never get back for a pittance, and that something can come back and harm them at any point for the rest of their lives. There is a reason privacy is a human right, its loss can deeply affect the lives of those that forfeit it or have it abused.