> "I've been pretty dismissive towards people who hesitate with privacy concerns." It's this dismissiveness that hasn't helped innovation in social media priva

> "I've been pretty dismissive towards people who hesitate with privacy concerns." It's this dismissiveness that hasn't helped innovation in social media privacy, but sent it backwards. Thanks for that. > "Get your loved ones off Facebook". And this hair-on-fire turnaround doesn't help either. Our "loved ones" have their own brains. They would tell me to bugger off if I tried to spoil their fun. I don't think I believe that FB keeps shadow profiles. What would be the commercial usage of such data? I doubt they are sharing shadow profile data with ad partners. What would such data look like and how could anyone possibly verify it? I never signed up to FB, it's not my thing, too much like a club, not open enough, terrible or non-existent open data approach. I prefer gardens without walls. FB puts barbed wire fencing up by not allowing such basic things as RSS or feeds from FB to a website. Even the person who admins the FB page can't get to its data. Instead you have to install their like button on your site, and get an ugly widget thing to stream the data in within this God-awful blue and white box thing that really looks ugly on a website, and is bloated and crap. But I see other people enjoying FB, especially the group pages which is where the best action is I'm told. (my 20-something flatmate tells me as she looks at FB right now on the couch). If you leave FB for whatever reason (or never sign up in first place) then just do it. You don't need to blog about why you left. Just leave.