> Don't join a site where the goal is to publicly connect > with people you know. That's all well and good until your child's school starts requiring you to do

> Don't join a site where the goal is to publicly connect > with people you know. That's all well and good until your child's school starts requiring you to do so to sign up for parent-teacher conferences, say. There's all sorts of stuff being done via Facebook that really shouldn't be totally public but is because some _one_ person has decided to put it all out there, violating the privacy of all the other people involved. Yes, this happened before Facebook. The difference is that Facebook actively tries to get people to do such things.