>> if you are going to leave your house unattended for three years... you are downright stupid to not figure some way to get it watched That is completely diff

>> if you are going to leave your house unattended for three years... you are downright stupid to not figure some way to get it watched That is completely different. Number one, a common and legitimate reason to stop using Facebook is apathy. How many sites or services have you abandoned using over the years? Imagine if each one of them took your inactivity as permission to actively impersonate you. Number two, this isn't like your abandoned house getting broken into by random people. This is like your landlord changing your rent agreement unilaterally to say that she can steal your furniture. The real difference is that I assume my landlord is basically honest, whereas I long ago dropped that assumption about Facebook. If I heard that Facebook were taking over web cameras and selling indecent images of their users, I would not be surprised. I see the basic policy of Facebook as "we are going to do anything we want with your account and/or data unless you vigilantly monitor and stop us." Which is why I deleted my account. I assume they actually kept it and are still selling my data, because that's just the kind of company they are.